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Jason Connor
Jason Connor
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Posted by Jason Connor
Jason Connor
6,379 Points

Using Symfony On My Computer

I like to work alongside these video courses on my own computer, as opposed to Workspaces. I've never used Symfony before, and I would like to understand how I can begin using it in my projects. Any help is greatly appreciated.

2 Answers

Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points
Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

Hi Jason,

You'd want to have some kind of server setup on your computer. So for many people that means using something like MAMP or MAMP Pro (Windows and Mac) or WAMP Server (for Windows only) which would setup the web server, PHP, and the database.

Then you can follow the instructions for getting Symfony installed by using their directions. https://symfony.com/doc/current/setup.html

Ricardo Rodriguez
Ricardo Rodriguez
9,758 Points
Ricardo Rodriguez
Ricardo Rodriguez
9,758 Points

Jason Connor although most people do as Tim Knight mentioned (installing WAMP or XAMP) I like to have PHP installed globally on my PC and that is also a simple solution to load the server just by calling the "php -S localhost:8000" command but the point here is that Symphony is a full stack framework (in high demand btw) and that might it not covered during this course but in my case where PHP is globally installed you will just need to run "composer update" (after adding the lines that call Symfony libraries in the code) and that will take care of downloading the symfony components you need to get this run smoothly locally without a third party tool like XAMP or WAMP.

I'll be happy to help if you hit a wall on this, I am currently taking this course and I'm loving it!