I have been doing my Joomla extension development on my Macbook Pro for the last 8 years, and my setup involves some very simple tools. On my Mac, I used MAMP and BBEdit. My workflow involves using Git for version control, MAMP for testing my extension on Joomla, and Phing for building the extension. Recently, I have decided to migrate some of the work to a Windows 10 laptop, and I decided to go with WAMP Server 3.1.6 64 bit as my server testing environment.
So after installing WAMP Server on my Windows machine, I needed to setup Phing. I wanted to share my process of setting it up because I encountered some problems along the way that took quite a bit of searching to figure out. So, I hope that my steps below will help someone to have a smooth installation of Phing on their Windows machine. Continue reading “How to install Phing on WAMP Server 64 bit”
