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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Getting Started with Laravel Installing Laravel Homestead

Posted by Wendell Pulsipher
Wendell Pulsipher
10,183 Points

Laravel Beyond confusing

Seriously... I know a fair bit about php already but this tutorial is completely and totally windows users "unfriendly"... what if we don't use sublime text? is having git essential for this course? it looks like it is.. what if we don't have a git account? maybe there should be a note for people of course prerequisites before they even start? either way I've had enough of this course already.. i went and uninstalled vagrant and all the other stuff for it because it's far too confusing for a windows user with very limited understanding of command line stuff

3 Answers

Robert Bojor
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Robert Bojor
Courses Plus Student 29,439 Points
Robert Bojor
Robert Bojor
Courses Plus Student 29,439 Points

Hi Wendell,

If you don't use Sublime you can edit the files in your preferred IDE, it's not a requirement. I am using Coda on my mac to edit the files. Instead of launching Sublime form the command prompt you do it by clicking on its icon...

It's true, I haven't tried setting up VirtualBox and Vagrant on my PC but it shouldn't be that different. For SSH you can use Putty on Windows to connect to your vagrant box.

I might be the bearer of bad news, but if you are looking to become a PHP developer you will need to start learning how to navigate a Linux installation and at least manage to set up a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - not all the websites you are going to code are going to run on shared servers.

Wendell Pulsipher
Wendell Pulsipher
10,183 Points
Wendell Pulsipher
Wendell Pulsipher
10,183 Points

I use WinSCP for SSH but XAMPP is the pretty much the same concept as LAMP right? I use XAMPP and while I understand that they can't go over every single stack out there they should at least not confine their tutorials to just their preferred software titles. I use Komodo Edit and/or Dreamweaver (depending on what features I want most from day to day) so that command they mentioned is irrelevant to me. Either way.. I am going to be seeking a better understanding of command line stuff in the near future but, again I think they confine some of the tutorials to select software titles and OS's too much.

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

I agree that the "install for Windows" might be a good addition to this course. Maybe it's something Hampton Paulk can help explain.

I think that you shouldn't worry too much about using Sublime. As Robert Bojor mentioned, it's just a different text editor. A lot of text editors you can open from command line. You mentioned that your part-time Komodo - maybe this might be of interest http://docs.activestate.com/komodo/4.4/starting.html

Wendell Pulsipher
Wendell Pulsipher
10,183 Points
Wendell Pulsipher
Wendell Pulsipher
10,183 Points

Thanks Tom Cawthorn for the Komodo reference.