Ask HN: PHP Development Environment on Windows?

3 points by leeshire 6y ago ↗ HN

I no longer use MAC or Linux systems.

my mother had got me a Windows laptop Lenovo and want to play around with it for a bit get the hang of windows

I'm also interested in learning PHP Wordpress but mostly on windows

is there a way to set up a Dev playground on PHP?

I hear Wampserver or Xampp ? are those the 2 best options for window PHP developers.

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kbrannigan 6y ago ↗

I would personally recommend Laragon: https://laragon.org/

It's more polished than the older programs. It offers neat features like: quick apps, virtual hosts etc...

It isolates your php stuff, you can mess with it without worries

dazmiller 6y ago ↗

+1 for Laragon, simply a joy to work with.

leeshire 6y ago ↗

okay another interesting answer thanks a lot ! appreciate this . So basically is like WAMP? OR MAMP? When I had a macbook pro I used MAMP and loved it .

but when I downloaded MAMP for windows it said to download a bunch of other Redistributables which took a while and headache lol

cloudking 6y ago ↗

Set up WSL for a proper Linux dev environment within Windows 10 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

leeshire 6y ago ↗

wow this is very interesting have you tried it before?

I use to be for big on Ubuntu I used it for a long time is it similar? I'll look into it thanks a lot.

cloudking 6y ago ↗

Yes it's awesome, you can install Ubuntu and everything just works. You get access to both file systems from each OS.