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I need to develop a PHP application and as I am not familiar with PHP and I am working on a windows environment, I need to setup a development system. I develop normally using Visual Studio and I did some ASP.Net development so I am familiar with web development. My questions:

1- Can I develop PHP using Visual studio?

2- What is the best development setup for PHP development?

3- How can I debug PHP code?

4- Do I need a web server on my pc? If yes, is there any portable web server, where I don't need to install it?

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  • Or you may install virtualbox and run your code there. – zerkms Nov 17 '14 at 08:41
  • 1) Unknow, you can use note pad. 2)It Depends, for IDE you have a lot, like dreamweaver or phpDesigner maybe. 3) google 4)it's best to have to (at least for debug). try to search xampp portable or easyphp portable. – Marco Mura Nov 17 '14 at 08:43

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1: There's a plugin, but probably isn't the best option.

2: That's arbitrary, PHPStorm is popular, another one is Eclipse PDT.

3: Using XDebug, or just by googling any error you get. Remember to setup the right debug settings.

4: That's convenient yes. Xampp (platform independent) or Wamp (Windows) are the most common options. Another one is Nginx.

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