Laravel Valet

As of this writing, the latest Laravel Valet requires PHP 7.2. What if you still have legacy projects or Drupal 6 modules you maintain that can't run under PHP 7.2? It would be nice if Laravel Valet has option to run multiple PHP versions but there isn't one. Laravel Valet uses nginx + php-fpm and we can tap to nginx and php-fpm's configurations to make possible to run our legacy projects in PHP 5.6. This will make our nginx running both PHP 7.2 and PHP 5.6.

This article will show step by step on how to setup phpMyAdmin with Laravel Valet:

1. Install Homebrew. Execute the following shell command in your terminal:

         
   /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
         
       

   If you have Homebrew already installed, update it:

         
   brew update
         
       

2. Install composer. Execute the following shell commands in your terminal:

Setup of development environment for Mac is made easy with Laravel Valet. Comparing it with XAMPP setup, we don't need to edit hosts file and httpd.conf/httpd-vhosts.conf Apache configuration files to add a local development domain. Even Drupal multiple sites setup (sharing the same code base) is possible in Laravel Valet. In this article will discuss the Drupal multiple sites setup step by step guide and we will use local development domain http://webfoobar.test as Drupal site #1 and http://drupal.test as Drupal site #2.

Steps: