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Use VS Code Tasks to Build A PHP Server - #83


Published: January 12, 2022 | DevDrawer


Estimated Reading Time
2 minutes
Video Duration
11:16 minutes

Learn how to use Visual Studio Code tasks to build a PHP server without XAMPP or WAMP. In this tutorial, we will create 2 tasks in VS Code. One will create our PHP server in the terminal, the other will then launch Chrome and open our server. The end result is a quick and easy PHP dev environment that launches automatically with a quick key combination.

Launch a build task on Windows: CTRL + SHIFT + B

Launch a build task on Apple: CMD + SHIFT + B

0:00 Intro

01:35 Open Tasks

03:00 Create A PHP Server Task

06:55 Create Our Browser Task

08:51 Put It All Together

09:24 Testing

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Applications Used

Visual Studio Code v1.43: https://code.visualstudio.com/

WAMP v3.2.0: http://www.wampserver.com/en/

WordPress: https://wordpress.org

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