It’s 100 times easier and faster to set up your home/work computer that you plan to write code on to emulate a web server environment. So, you don’t have to constantly upload your files to a web server to see the results.
That said, your home computer, by default, will not be able to process PHP, because it doesn’t have a PHP processing engine. So, we need to install a few pieces of software that will enable you to create, process, and display your scripts on your home computer without requiring internet or web server access.
Watch the videos below to get your local development environment set up and running:
