Prior to arriving at the event, clone this repository so that you will not have to download it at the venue. Also, make sure to run composer install after you have finished cloning. If you are able to do this, you are more likely to have a successful tutorial.
Keep in mind that there might be last minute changes to the repository. Check the night before the event to see if you need to pull any recent changes.
To be able to do the exercises in this tutorial, you need to have the following things set-up on your machine:
- Composer
- PHP 7.1 (or later)
It is expected that you know how to edit PHP files, and run them on the command line. All exercises will revolve around writing command line scripts.
If you have questions related to any of the installation instructions below, please email me at beau@dflydev.com, or find me (simensen) on IRC's Freenode network.
Make sure you can call Composer through either just composer, or by calling php /path/to/composer.phar. I would recommend that you follow the instructions at https://getcomposer.org/download/ by running the 4 PHP commands, and then copy the installed composer.phar file to /usr/local/bin/composer:
sudo cp composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Now verify whether Composer works by running:
composer --version
Please install the PHP package through your package manager. For Debian and Ubuntu, this package is named php.
To verify whether your installation worked, run the following commands:
php --version
Running this command should output something like this (pay attention to the version numbers):
PHP 7.2.4 (cli) (built: Mar 29 2018 15:32:43) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
with blackfire v1.18.2~mac-x64-non_zts72, https://blackfire.io, by SensioLabs