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PHP Development Environment Setup & Tools (Windows Host & Ubuntu Linux VM Guest)

  • I mostly use the paid PHPStorm as main development IDE 
    (supports: PHP, JS (Angular, PhoneGap/Cordova), CSS/HTML, .MD, XML etc)
  • NetBeans PHP as the free version alternative
  • Apache on Ubuntu Debian LTS - VirtualBox
    virtualization (it can change PHP versions by creating/restoring snapshots)
  • IIS on Windows (can easily register and change between PHP versions)
  • GoogleChrome powerful browser & dev console (has bookmarks sync)
  • POSTman for API testing (has sync, unit tests and supports multiple environments)
  • SourceTree for Git Source Control Management (and conflict merging as well)
  • HeidiSQL as a SQL client tool (db/table backup and restoration, fast)
  • WinSCP for SFTP file transfers (light)
  • PuTTY SSH and Telnet client (light)
  • DiffMerge for file differences comparisons and merging
  • WinMerge for directory differences comparisons
  • cmder fancy console emulator for Windows
  • Slack fancy team messaging app

Configuration

  • Since the projects require to work in both Windows and Linux environments I do the following configuration: 
    • Windows 
      • Map the new server projectname.windows in IIS
      • Locate and open your hosts file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
      • Add 127.0.0.1 projectname.windows
    • Linux 
      • Map the /var/www/projectname.local as projectname.local in Apache /etc/apache2/sites-available/projectname.local.conf)
      • Locate and open your hosts file from your host Windows C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
      • Add 127.0.0.1 (replace with your IP) projectname.local
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