Setting up ExpressionEngine & Laravel Herd

Thanks for showcasing. Always curious what others are doing for local development.

We’re going to drop another video thats an updated version of Installing ExpressionEngine (without the local dev setup)… we had gotten a few comments on how to actually setup dev locally, so wanted to cover it.

Awesome. Look forward to it… Something that I’ve been tossing around in my head is creating an EE application type for DDEV.

• Shorter setup

  • Simple config.php and .env.php (pre-populated with DDEV url and db variables)

• Alias for eecli tool (with DDEV variable so you can point to your eecli.php wherever your system directory is).

LOVE IT!

@tomjaeger If I was trying to programmatically determine if a site was expressionengine (given access to the entire codebase) what file would I look for? Assume no configuration files exist just that the core application files are present.

I’m guessing ExpressionEngine.php?

I’d probably grab the index.php from the public directory, and search for expressionengine in it

directory /system/ee/ may do the job too…

I’m also trying to make it aware that the system directory location can change so DDEV will check the index.php file for it’s location.

Initial commit: https://github.com/jaredchesebro/ddev/commit/485812c8181959891b8a128f78f9fa59fc4eae30

I’ll have to run it through a bunch of tests to get it merged.

Right on!

https://github.com/ddev/ddev/pull/7951

I REALLY needed this! I have been using Herd for static sites but I completely failed at creating a database. Thanks, Tom!

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