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@NogDogApr 29.2021 — #I have not touched WordPress in several years now, but back when I did, if you logged into your WordPress site as an administrator (or whatever type of user they called it), you could edit relevant PHP files within the admin interface. Maybe a current WordPress developer can provide more info on the current way to do that?
Anyway...
As far as PHP development in general, we do use Docker containers, both for development and actual deployment. When working locally while developing, it is possible to map directories in the local docker container to your development code on your pc/laptop, allowing you in many cases to edit a PHP file, save it, and then immediately see the results via a localhost access to the container in any browser. So...Docker can be very useful for that, but the downside is that there is a non-trivial learning curve (and fortunately my immediate boss is a comparative expert on it ;) ).
Possibly a bit more straight-forward is to just run a web server locally, using something like XAMPP or wampserver to set up Apache, PHP, and MySQL on your pc/laptop. That's what I always used to do for personal projects, but again have not had any reason to touch it for some time now.@NogDogApr 30.2021 — #
For me, the advantage of using Docker is specifically to avoid having to develop/test on a remote server. Rather, I use Docker to set up a local environment on my computer that closely emulates what will be used on the live server (or in the case how we use at work where we actually deploy Docker containers on the live web hosting -- essentially the exact same environment).
A quick bit of googling shows there are some SFTP and SSH extensions for VS Code that appear to allow you to edit code on remote servers, but I have no experience with any of them.
Edit PHP code in “Browser developer tools” or another tool.
Dear community,
I am relatively recent with Web Development.
As PHP code is not seen by browsers, through my research so far, I could not find a way on a WordPress website, with some additional tool, to be able to see and edit the PHP code in Browser developer tools.
My rational behind this (but can be interpreted as silly due to my lack of experience) is; when PHP is providing function for an HTML code chunk, by also being able to edit PHP in Browser Developer Tools, I would see the visual changes reflect immediately; and make extra corrections before applying them in the file. Just like with CSS. As it really speeds things up, since you don’t need to save and refresh the page.
I am currently checking if through Visual Studio Code this can be achieved.
What do you recommend; [docker.com
Basically, would be great to get experienced web developers chime in, on what practice they use, to make WordPress Web Development with PHP, as fast as possible.
To make sure i am not missing a faster way of doing things.
I am using FTP and saving the edited files.
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@NogDogApr 29.2021 — #I have not touched WordPress in several years now, but back when I did, if you logged into your WordPress site as an administrator (or whatever type of user they called it), you could edit relevant PHP files within the admin interface. Maybe a current WordPress developer can provide more info on the current way to do that?Anyway...
As far as PHP development in general, we do use Docker containers, both for development and actual deployment. When working locally while developing, it is possible to map directories in the local docker container to your development code on your pc/laptop, allowing you in many cases to edit a PHP file, save it, and then immediately see the results via a localhost access to the container in any browser. So...Docker can be very useful for that, but the downside is that there is a non-trivial learning curve (and fortunately my immediate boss is a comparative expert on it ;) ).
Possibly a bit more straight-forward is to just run a web server locally, using something like XAMPP or wampserver to set up Apache, PHP, and MySQL on your pc/laptop. That's what I always used to do for personal projects, but again have not had any reason to touch it for some time now.
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@NogDogApr 30.2021 — #>@49duv#1631065 The reason i'm working directly from the hosting provider live server...
For me, the advantage of using Docker is specifically to avoid having to develop/test on a remote server. Rather, I use Docker to set up a local environment on my computer that closely emulates what will be used on the live server (or in the case how we use at work where we actually deploy Docker containers on the live web hosting -- essentially the exact same environment).
A quick bit of googling shows there are some SFTP and SSH extensions for VS Code that appear to allow you to edit code on remote servers, but I have no experience with any of them.