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PHP Introducing Dependency Management and Composer

Philip Schultz
Philip Schultz
11,437 Points
Posted by Philip Schultz
Philip Schultz
11,437 Points

Does this assignment work locally?

I'm having some difficulty getting this project to work locally on my XAMMP server. Is this intended to just use workspaces? Do I need some kind of email service for this work locally?

jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points
jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points

What are the issues / errors showing? Also: Do you have composer installed on your computer?

2 Answers

Ahmed Noor
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Ahmed Noor
Courses Plus Student 7,539 Points
Ahmed Noor
Ahmed Noor
Courses Plus Student 7,539 Points

Hey Phillip, one common reason for using PHPMailer is to avoid having to send email from a local testing environment. However you need to look at mamp/xampp's docs and make sure your local mail server is working, and read the SMTP section in the PHP docs as it suggests.

Mike Straw
Mike Straw
7,100 Points
Mike Straw
Mike Straw
7,100 Points

If you need a local mailserver that doesn't go anywhere, MailHog is great for that: https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog