Laragon

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

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

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

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

VS Code with PHP and Xdebug 3 Xdebug 3 is an extremely powerful debugging tool for PHP. Although print_r(), var_dump() and dd() have their uses, Xdebug gives more powerful debugging options: step debugging allows the ability to view execution of each line of code, including the ability to view all variables and their values. Code coverage is useful to identify untested code, or code which is never executed (dead code).