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Okay, guys.

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So something important that I really would like to stress.

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We're going to be running PHP programs through command line terminal.

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However you call it on Mac OS, that's just a terminal app.

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You might also use a third party terminal applications.

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And on the windows this is command prompt or preferably PowerShell.

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It's identical on all the systems, even on Linux.

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What's important is that you have PHP available through command line.

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You need to run PHP hyphen v, and this should give you a PHP version.

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And we're going to run the PHP code this way.

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Even if we already have a web project, we would be using a built in PHP server to start the server,

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so it's available in the web browser.

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But before we do that, we're going to be using PHP through command line to run PHP code like this one.

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So the way it works is you type PHP and you follow that by the location of the PHP file you'd like to

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run.

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If I run this one, this is a roll a dice example, which you can roll until you hit jackpot or until

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you just tell it to stop.

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That's a one way to run it through your terminal application, whatever is the name of this terminal

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app.

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Another way which I often do is within the built in Visual Studio Code terminal.

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There is absolutely no difference which way you use.

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So in here in the view menu you've got this terminal option.

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This will open a terminal.

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In your case it might be at the bottom.

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I just have VSCode configured for this project.

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So it is on the right.

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And in here you do it exactly the same way.

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It's important that you need to be in the directory of the project where you have all those files,

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and then you can run the programs the same way.

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There is absolutely no difference.

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Now, finally, it might be just useful to learn the shortcut for opening the terminal inside VSCode

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on my system.

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This is just control.

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Tilde.

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I think it is similar on windows, but you can check it out by just opening it from the view menu.

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You're gonna see it right here.

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So as a summary, doesn't matter if you use the built in terminal in VSCode, as I will be doing most

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of the time, or a separate app like PowerShell, Command Prompt terminal or warp, whatever terminal

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app you prefer.

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It's just the way we're gonna be running PHP programs.