[Discuss] How to set up a development environment on Windows

[RMcGirr83]

https://themeforest.net/licenses

From there:

Did you know that when you purchase an item from one of our marketplaces, you're actually purchasing a license to use that item?

So what if I download an item from elsewhere?

Then it is no different than downloading a movie from a torrent....it's illegal.

I'm pretty sure that phpBB Ltd. is, technically, a business, so any of its employees are here as business users

and you would be correct IF phpBB had employees which, by definition, it does not. It has volunteers and no one on the team, last I knew, is paid for their services which is unlike an "employee".

Also we were just talking about businesses making money with creating phpBB themes.

Not everything that is found on themeforest is done by a business in the strictest sense of the word. Many are just people that create these styles and aren't an actual business (eg, if a US resident, instead of them using an EIN (employer identification number) they use their social security number for the reporting of income from themeforest).

[Tuxman]

Then it is no different than downloading a movie from a torrent....it's illegal.

So is ignoring the "you must purchase a license for more than just evaluation" part.

It has volunteers and no one on the team, last I knew, is paid for their services which is unlike an "employee".

Where can I find the company's financial statements?

Not everything that is found on themeforest is done by a business in the strictest sense of the word.

"Selling things" is per definition a "business".

[RMcGirr83]

Where can I find the company's financial statements?

Good luck. phpBB LTD is registered in the UK last I knew so maybe you can find them there.

"Selling things" is per definition a "business".

Uhmm, we will have to disagree on that. We have contractors whom we pay and issue 1099's to who are not businesses....they are individuals. https://www.irs.gov/uac/about-form-1099misc

Anyway, I think this particular discussion has pretty much run it's course.

[DavidIQ]

So is ignoring the "you must purchase a license for more than just evaluation" part.

Once again that is not any sort of license nor is it in their EULA so there is nothing "illegal" in not ever purchasing a license. Even if that particular sentence could be seen as a license the wording right after that pretty much cancels out any perceived purchase requirement. What IS illegal, as per their EULA, is sharing one's purchased license. Reaching beyond that is speculation at best.

The following sentence was been added to the blog post to discourage future baseless discussions about this non-issue:

Otherwise you can easily purchase a license on their site.

[Tuxman]

Well, thank you.

[Dog Cow]

Why do you care so much? Don't you have something better to do than harass the volunteers who run this site?

[3Di]

To be back on Topic, may I ask what should we discuss about that blog post?

An article in the KB already covers all of this (more or less)
https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... eb-server/

Why not to add the QI part to it?

To add, as per the title itself, why not to explain how to set-up a "real" development environment, with all the bells and whistles. Like Composer, Git Tools, Skeleton ext, etc.

Also in this case I would add that bit to the already existing dev-docs.

[yasara]

Thank you very much for the blog post. I was able to setup the project using that.
Then I started to work with an issue. Now I need to commit the implemented solution code. I have implemented the code inside the quickinstall --> boards --> yasara folder. But in my github desktop, inside the quickinstall repository, it doesn't show any of the changes I made. Could you help me with this. What is the best way to commit my code?

[battye]

I will be writing a follow up to this blog post which will be focussed on using Vagrant to create a virtual environment.

To add, as per the title itself, why not to explain how to set-up a "real" development environment, with all the bells and whistles. Like Composer, Git Tools, Skeleton ext, etc.

... and I intend to make Composer and Git a part of that post as well

[3Di]

Good news, thx for your efforts.
The more detailed the more there are chances to get new coders creating extensions or help the devs.

Btw, see how phpstorm does that
http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display ... pStorm+IDE

[secretguy1808]

Does it work with Xampp too?? And Can I use postgresql?

[battye]

Does phpBB work with Xampp and Postgre? Sure I've never tried it myself but I found some information at http://www.7codes.info/post/13/install- ... admin-tool which might help.

As I mentioned above, I'm a fan of Vagrant and using virtual machines to set up local development environments. I've written a blog post on that subject which should be appearing at blog.phpbb.com any moment now - it covers the configuration of Vagrant, VirtualBox and Putty for creating a virtual Ubuntu machine within Windows, and how to set up the LAMP stack along with phpMyAdmin. All of those topics run quite long, so the third instalment will cover more subjects like Git/GitHub and Composer. I've used Phpstorm with Xdebug before which is a great development combo that I'd like to include as well, but I've not used it within a Vagrant context before so I'll need to learn how to set that up first.

[DavidIQ]

FYI: The afore-mentioned blog post has now been published.

[javiexin]

Thanks a lot for both blog posts, useful and needed!

May I suggest a third blog post covering how to configure and use phpstorm for effective phpbb development?

Thanks again,
-javiexin

[Ger]

While PHP Storm is very good, I wouldn't suggest it to anyone starting with PHP development since it's a commercial license (€ 199,- first year).
I would suggest Netbeans as it is cross platform available and FOSS.