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Jan 9, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this uh short
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little tutorial so in this video I will
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actually show you a cool little Visual
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Studio code extension which allows you
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to run your PHP documents without having
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to install exam Apache server so if you
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know in PHP if you want to run PHP
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applications you need some kind of
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Apache control panel this is actually
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exam control panel that you install it
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and it comes with the Apache mySQL
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database so so you need to install this
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software you need to Simply click on
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start and then you need to start your
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application you need to go to your uh
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exam directory which is located in the C
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drive and in the asht docs folder this
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is basically the setup that I'm showing
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you by default you do this you create a
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project inside this HD dos directory so
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let me just create a brand new project
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here sample
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project so I let me just make it
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so let me just create a simple file
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index.php so this is actually the
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default Behavior how we actually run PHP
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applications so we actually have this
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PHP tag and here we write a statement
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hello
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world so now to run this application you
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do you do need to start this ex Apache
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web server and you just need to write
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here simply Local Host followed by your
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directory of whatever you are running so
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Local Host T this is my you can see that
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so now hello world is showing in the
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browser so we are running this
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application this is actually a default
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Behavior by which you need to install
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this software on your machine exam
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control panel which is uh if you go to
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Google it
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actually exam control panel is
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a uh software which is available for
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Windows Mac and Linux by which you
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actually run your PHP application but
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now in this tutorial I would show you a
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cool little extension which is available
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in vs code by which you don't need to
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actually start the server you don't need
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to require it you can just uninstall
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this if you don't need to actually need
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this Apache server simply close it and
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now I will show you how to run this PHP
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application so this is I am here inside
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my directory you will see that let me
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delete everything
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so let me create a file
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index.php and inside this we actually
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have a statement Echo hi hello
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world this is PHP so I will also show
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you hot reloading as you make changes
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automatically your web server will
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automatically reflect the changes in the
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browser similar to which we have live
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server for other programming languages
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such as python JavaScript each and
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language has a live server similarly I
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will be showing you an extensions go to
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the manage section right here go to
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extensions and this extension you need
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to Simply write PHP server just search
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for this extension PHP server and there
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will be a lot of extensions out there
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the one that you need is actually this
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one which is PHP built-in server which
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is developed by David fer David Freer
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this is actually the extension which
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comes with hot reloading where whenever
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you make any sort of changes inside your
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PHP file it will automatically reload so
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I already installed this extension so
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let me just show you once again if I
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reload this and again search for this
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PHP
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server and
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uh so the extension will come here uh if
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you drag down you will see PHP built-in
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server it is developed by David FR
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simply click on install and it is a
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fairly new extension it is almost got
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5,000 downloads so now you can see the
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extension is uh uh installed globally so
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it is 83 kilobyte extension and it comes
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with the PHP hot reloading automatically
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it reloads to your file whenever you
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make any sort of changes so now you
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don't need to actually have exam
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installed so you can see my exam is not
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running if you see my exam control panel
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is not running I have just closed this
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and now if you want to run this file you
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need to Simply either you can right
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click or the if the option is not
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showing right here simply type
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on uh Windows control shift p this is a
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shortcut and this will open and now you
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will actually have this PHP built-in
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server this is actually the you can even
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write as well PHP built-in server so it
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will just select this option and now
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your server will start and you can
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basically see it is running by default
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on
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5,001 port number so by default exam
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control panel runs your application on
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at Port number Local Host 0 port number
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this runs on
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50001 so the nice thing about that guys
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if you just put it side by side if you
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make any sort of changes the hot
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reloading will also be done hot
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reloading is not there in examp in examp
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if you basically make changes you need
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to refresh the page but here if I just
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show you if I make any sort of changes
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if I just do this you will see
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automatically it will reload I'm not
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doing anything I just writing my code
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and you can see on the right hand side
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automatically the code will just put
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your semicolon you will
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see so as I'm just making the changes
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automatically it is refreshing it I am
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just you can see that
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so hot reloading this is called as hot
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reloading in PHP so whenever you write
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your code you can just write HTML as
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well so this is a paragraph you can also
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write CSS everything you can write here
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you can even write a H1
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tag so you can see that so automatically
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it is refreshing and you can even have
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HTML document right here if you want to
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just uh you can have a button right
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here register
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so everything is supported you will see
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hot reloading is there you can even
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write JavaScript as well so if you want
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to have a alert statement
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here you can see that it is
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automatically reloading and
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uh so high statement is there in the
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alert statement so you can write your
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PHP code side by side in the HTML code
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as well CSS JavaScript everything you
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can write in a one file and it will
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automatically reload whenever you make
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any sort of changes so in this way you
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can do this so you can see that so how
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easy it is guys uh this is actually the
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extension that I was talking about and
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uh this makes it really easy to actually
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build your applications if you don't
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want to install exam you can see that uh
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you can have the stylesheet as well if
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you want to change the background color
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to red
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so you can see that so in this
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way you can see that so we have the PHP
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code we have everything which we have so
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you can just
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write so you can see that guys new line
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character if you want to have new line
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I think we need to do write
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this new line
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corrector we can have a break tag right
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here so it will come on the next line so
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you can mix and match HTML code PHP code
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uh this is the all-in-one extension guys
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which comes with all these features hot
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reloading everything so you don't need
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exam control panel this is a best extens
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best extension that I found out on vs
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code that it supports uh hot reloading
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you it actually supports everything you
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can run your PHP so control shift p is
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the shortcut and just search for PHP
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built in whenever you are developing
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this so you will see that so this option
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will come right here PHP
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built-in
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server PHP
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this is actually PHP buil-in server you
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can see that
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so this is actually the extension guys
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it's very
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simple so you can even directly click
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this go live right here if you click
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this your server will
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start this is not this one this one
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local hose it will run on 50001
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so this is actually the extension guys
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if you are interested the link is given
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oh sorry you can install this
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extension and this is actually the
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extension PHP built-in server this is
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actually the extension there are lot
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more options also available if you see
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now let me show you the second option uh
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if you see this is a fairly new
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extension if I want to uninstall this
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and show you the other ones other
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options as well so hot reloading is not
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available with in other plugins I just
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showed you if you just try out other
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plugins as well uh hot reload hot
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reloading is not available in this
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plugin which is PHP server which is
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developed by this person bra F if you
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install it directly you will see it will
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install it and you will get this option
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right here you can serve your project
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and it will again start right here if
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you
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see but I think in this plugin hot
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reloading functionality is not there so
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if I change
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anything uh it will not automatically
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load so you do need to refresh the page
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for the changes to take place so if you
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see you can remove your PHP code it will
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refresh you can see that so we can add
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this is also a very handy extension if
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you don't want to use that one you can
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use that but you need to refresh the
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page for this so hot reloading is not
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available for this but surely it's a
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very good extension it has got 2 million
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downloads and it has option directly if
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you right click you will see these
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options these four options which is PHP
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server open file in browser reload
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server Ser project so these options will
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appear as you right click in the
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previous plugin you do need to just say
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control shift p and search for this so
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it totally depends upon your preference
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which plugin you want to use both these
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plugins are wonderful so in both these
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cases you don't need exam control panel
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installed on your machine you can
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directly run your PHP applications
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inside your Visual Studio code so this
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was a tutorial guys hopefully you like
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