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macOS setup

macOS setup

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macOS setup

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- [Instructor] Before we dive in and look at all the different frameworks, let's go ahead and get our computer set up so that we can run them. There's a few things that we need to do. The first thing is we're going to want to install Composer. We're also going to want to make sure that we have some things configured. For example, we want to have PHP 5.6 on our systems. Many of the frameworks require that or at least 5.5.9, so let's go ahead and install PHP 5.6. We also want to make sure to configure a couple different packages, and these are specific to CakePHP. One is mbstring, which is usually configured by default, but there's also an international string, which we'll want to set up. And then, Symfony requires that we have our timezone set up in the php ini. So let's go ahead and get everything set up on our computer so that we can run these different frameworks. One of the easiest ways to set things up in Mac is by using Homebrew. Homebrew is a tool that's set up basically just…

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