Windows

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

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

How to install and configure MySQL 8.0 on WSL 2 (Ubuntu), this guide assumes WSL 2 is already installed with Ubuntu.

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).

I have recently purchased a new laptop with Windows 10 home edition, after some research I found out that Docker will now run on Windows 10 home.