Phpstorm Phpmyadmin

As a PHP developer on Ubuntu, we may need to re setup our development environment sometimes. I did it already a few times, so decided to write down the steps for a typical php development environment on ubuntu. My Ubuntu version is 16.04.

Phpstorm Phpmyadmin Tutorial

Installation List

Installation PHP 5.6 & Apache2

We need to enable PPA in order to install PHP 5.6.

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Now we can install PHP 5.6 by the following commands

To install Apache2, run

Ubuntu 16.04 comes with PHP 7 as default. If you have PHP 7 installed, it won’t activate php 5.6 module. To activate, run

Now finally restart apache, so you are done with PHP 5.6 installation.

MySQl

PHPMyAdmin

Please follow the instruction from the link bellow to install PHPMyAdmin in your system.

CURL

PHP Storm IDE

You need to first install Oracle JDK in order to install PHP Storm. If you want to use SmartGIT 17.1.2 in your system then install JDK 8, otherwise you caninstall latest JDK 9.

Install Oracle JDK 8

First, update the package index.

Then, add Oracle's PPA, then update your package repository.

To install JDK 8, use the following command:

During the installation process you will need to accept the Oracle License agreement. Once installed we need to set Java environment variables such as JAVA_HOME on Ubuntu 16.04/17.04.

You can check the configured JAVA_HOME value by running the command bellow.

Install PHP Storm

First go the official website and download the tar archive. Extract the archive in your system and you will get a folder like ‘PhpStorm-172.4155.41’ (latest version at the time of writing this). Then go to the location where you downloaded it from the command line and move the folder to /opt/phpstorm following the command below.

Create a symlink

Now type phpstorm in the terminal to launch the application.

Follow the installation instruction of Importing from previous installation and Privacy Policy. Then choose the ‘Evaluate for fee for 30 days’ option and complete the installation.

After installation, opent the IDE and activate the license.

Go to Help > Register

Choose the 'License Server' option and use this URL as the license server, http://idea.imsxm.com

Click Activate, and you are done! :)

Install Composer

Check if Composer is already instaled or not.

Before installing the composer, we need to update the machine with the below command –

Composer will be installed under /usr/local/bin

Download the Composer using the below command in the /tmp folder

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Finally check the version of the composer to make sure it is installed properly.

Install and Configure xDebug on Ubuntu for PhpStorm

Assuming that you have already installed php and apache
Install xDebug php extension

Edit your xdebug.ini
Your xdebug.ini file path should look like this
- /etc/php/7.1/mods-available/xdebug.ini
Add these lines without modifying exiting

Restart the apache server to reflect changes

Configure phpStorm
Go through - Settings >> Languages & Frameworks >> PHP >> Debug
Check that 'Debug port' is the same you have in your xdebug.ini. In our case it was 9000.
Save and close the Settings Dialog
Start debugging
Create some breakpoints in your project
Make sure those breakpoints gets executed when your visit your website in browser.
Start listener by clicking on the telephone 📞 button on top toolbar
If you can't find telephone button; then go through menus - Run -> Start listening for PHP Debug Connections
In your browser access your project url like this

OR use bookmarks
OR use chrome extension
You should see a popup window in PhpStorm , click Accept connection
Done, enjoy debugging !!!

Disable xdebug

Enable xdebug back

Disable xdebug for commandline only

Step 1 – Download Skype Debian Package

First of all, download the Skype package for Debian system from its official download page. You can also use below command to download latest available Debian package.

wget https://repo.skype.com/latest/skypeforlinux-64.deb

Step 2 – Install Skype

Use the following command to install downloaded skype package on your Ubuntu system.

sudo dpkg -i skypeforlinux-64.deb

In the case of the above command failed to install package due to any dependency run command.

sudo apt-get install -f

Step 3 – Launch Skype

Use your dashboard skype button to start skype on your system, or you can use the following command as well.

skypeforlinux