Time to get set up and have everything that you will need to code on your machine.
So you're going to need PHP 8.2 or newer.
There are a couple of ways you can get set up.
It's either some Laravel hard or manual installation that's the preferred option, and the one I'm going
to explain on the video.
Another thing that you need is a code editor.
I suggest using Visual Studio Code, but I'm going to also mention PHP, storm and Z.
We're going to need PHP in the command line, so it's a good idea to just check if maybe you have PHP
already.
This can be done by typing PHP hyphen v I have PHP already, so if you have at least PHP 8.2 you should
be fine.
Now let me go through the options which you can use to install PHP.
That's either a very popular option, a full package that also includes web server and MySQL database.
Then there is a something new called Laravel Hurt.
It's just an app that you are supposed to install on your system, and it will have PHP and a couple
other options.
It's available only for Mac OS and windows, and the third option is the one I suggest just using my
tutorials from my website.
I'm going to also record videos for every system for Linux, for macOS, and for windows.
So those videos will be coming up next.
And the other part was setting up a code editor.
So there is PHP storm.
It's super powerful, but it's paid so you know it's up to you.
Then there is an editor called Zed.
It's only available for Mac OS and Linux, not for windows yet.
It's decent, but the one I would suggest is Visual Studio Code most popular one.
Almost everyone is using it.
It has great support for PHP, so that's also the one I'm gonna be suggesting, the one I'm going to
be using and the one I will explain setting up.