Re-introducing Vagrant: The Right Way to Start with PHP

I often get asked to recommend beginner resources for people new to PHP. And, it’s true, we don’t have many truly newbie friendly ones. I’d like to change that by first talking about the basics of environment configuration. In this post, you’ll learn about the very first thing you should do before starting to work with PHP (or any other language, for that matter).

We’ll be re-introducing Vagrant powered development.

Please take the time to read through the entire article - I realize it’s a wall of text, but it’s an important wall of text. By following the advice within, you’ll be doing not only yourself one hell of a favor, but you’ll be benefitting countless other developers in the future as well. The post will be mainly theory, but in the end we’ll link to a quick 5-minute tutorial designed to get you up and running with Vagrant in almost no time. It’s recommended you absorb the theory behind it before you do that, though.

What?

Let’s start with the obvious question - what is Vagrant? To explain this, we need to explain the following 3 terms first:

• Virtual Machine
• VirtualBox
• Provisioning

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by Bruno Skvorc via SitePoint