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Laravel Herd released for Windows - Easy PHP local development - Laravel Herd is now available on Windows.
Setup PHP CS Fixer in VSCode (junstyle php-cs-fixer) - Format PHP code with php-cs-fixer into VSCode using the junstyle.php-cs-fixer plugin.
8 development server options for Laravel - Summary of development server options for Laravel including: PHP's built-in server, Valet, Herd, Homestead, Docker, Sail, Laragon, XAMPP, MAMP, and WAMP.
YouTube API and Laravel - Building on my YouTube API & PHP series, this guide covers how to communicate with the YouTube API from a Laravel application.
Using Composer in a plain PHP project (No frameworks) - How to set up and use Composer in a plain PHP project that isn’t using a framework.
YouTube API & PHP - Edit video details (google-api-php-client) - Edit a video’s details with the YouTube Data API using the google-api-php-client
YouTube API & PHP - OAuth Connection (google-api-php-client) - Set up an OAuth connection with Google and the YouTube Data API using the google-api-php-client
YouTube API & PHP - Get all videos from a channel (google-api-php-client) - How to get all the videos from a YouTube channel using the YouTube data API, PHP, and google-api-php-client package. Covers paging through the results using tokens.
YouTube API & PHP - Get video details (google-api-php-client) - How to retrieve information about a video from the YouTube Data API using google-api-php-client.
YouTube API & PHP - Initial setup (google-api-php-client) - How to query the YouTube API using PHP. In this setup video we’ll create and configure a new project in the Google Cloud console, install the package google-api-php-client, and query for the details of a video.
VSCode PHP CS Fixer: executablePath not found (junstyle) - Solutions for using the VSCode extension php cs fixer by junstyle and seeing the following error: PHP CS Fixer: executablePath not found. Try setting `php-cs-fixer.executablePath`: `${extensionPath}/php-cs-fixer.phar` and try again.
Run phpMyAdmin on a Mac (Herd / DBngin) - How to run phpMyAdmin on a Mac with Apache or Nginx and MySQL.
Install Composer on a Mac - PHP dependency management - How to install Composer on your Mac with just a few commands.
Upgrading to PHP 8.2 (Ubuntu with Apache) - Upgrading PHP on an Ubuntu server running Apache.
Upgrading to PHP 8.2 (Ubuntu with Nginx) - Upgrading PHP on an Ubuntu server running Nginx.
PHP Configuration - Locating and Editing php.ini (Apache, Nginx, PHP FPM) - How to identify and edit PHP’s initialization file (php.ini) which is responsible for configuring many of the aspects of PHP’s behavior.