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Laragon ships with Mail Catcher, which intercepts mail sent using the PHP mail() function. Mailpit goes one step further and acts as a local mailbox. No mail will ever leave the local PC!

Laragon 6 added the ability to run cron jobs. Here is an example on how to run them on Windows using Cronical.

I recently upgrade eight PHP Katas from a minimum PHP 7.3 to a minimum of PHP 8.0. I used Rector, Easy Coding Standard (ECS) and PhpStan to help me. This is how I approached the upgrade and used these tools.

Updating the version of PHP is probably the most common change I make in Laragon. The ability to switch from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.2 in a few clicks is Laragon’s magic

Laragon’s terminal is cmder, which will automatically give command line access to all the tools in Laragon’s development environment. If other terminals are required then Laragon can add the development tools to the Windows user environment path.

Laragon ships with Mail Catcher, which intercepts mail sent using the PHP mail() function. MailHog goes one step further and acts as a local mailbox. No mail will ever leave the local PC!

When developing projects the development environment should be as close as possible to the production one. We can and should enable security

Keeping the Laragon icon visible in the system tray, when minimised is helpful. In particular, it will avoid opening a new instance when one is already running.

Laragon needs permission to run and access through the Windows firewall

Laragon is my developer environment of choice on Windows, this is how I set up Laragon on a new computer

I recently had to set up git on a new machine, these are the basic steps required to install and configure Git to work with GitHub

This is my curated and opinionated list on how I try to keep up to date with what’s going on in software development and in particular PHP.

I wanted to experiment with NGINX unit as it offers the ability to specify the runtime for the project, this will be particularly useful when some projects are PHP 7.4, some PHP 8.0 and others PHP 8.1. This guide explains how to install NGINX unit on Windows WSL 2

This is my first post using Hugo static site generator, following the successful migration of my hexo site to Hugo

This is a basic tutorial on how to send emails from Windows using PHPMailer.