Woh! I'm super glad you're joining me to get down with Symfony 4! Our goal is to learn (by actually programming) as much as possible. But our time is short (only 4 hours!), so we need to make sure everyone's machines are setup to handle everything.
To do that, we ask that everyone does a little preparation before the
workshop. If you have any serious issues, let me know - ryan@knpuniversity.com!
Yep, it does need to be PHP 7.1 or higher! To make sure you've got the right version, find your favorite terminal, and run:
php -v
You'll also need to make sure you've got Composer installed: GetComposer.org.
By "installed globally", I mean that, when finished, you should be able to open a terminal and run:
composer
If you're having any issues making this work, and can only get the composer.phar file to
download, no worries - that's good enough :).
Because version control is fun! Make sure git is installed and can be run at the command line by simply typing "git". Probably the best resource on how to install git is GitHub:
https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git
Sweet!
We'll also use MySql during the training, so make sure you have that installed and that PHP can talk to the database. To see if it can, run:
php -i | grep pdo_mysql
If you see some things about pdo_mysql, you should be setup. Alternatively, if you don’t have MySQL or don’t want to install it, we can switch you to use Sqlite. Make sure the pdo_sqlite extension is installed.