To take part of the Development we recommend you to use the following tools
- Visual Studo Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/)
- PHP 5.6 (http://php.net/downloads.php)
- PHP Debug extensions for Visual Studio Code (requires xdebug)
This project comes with a tasks.json for VSC (Visual Studio Code).
It uses the built-in web server from PHP >= 5.4
These are the steps on how to run the project
- press F1 and type "task" followed by "Run PHP Server"
- Open the URL http://localhost:5000 in your favorite browser
Alternatively, you can use docker to populate the website incl. xdebug
- Install docker
- Execute
docker-compose upto run the container - Open the URL http://localhost:5000 (through port mapping)
For debugging purposes Visual Studio Code uses the launch.json with xdebug.
- Install the PHP Debug extension for vscode
- Open the "Debug" panel (Ctrl + Shift + D) and select "Listen for XDebug" or "Listen for XDebug (docker)" for docker configuration
- Pick a breakpoint on the file you which to debug
- Refresh the webpage
More details on how to debug PHP (using xdebug) please read here