Getting Started

We are in the most fun section! Here you will understand how to create and start your PHP server.

Creating the main file

We need to create a file called index.js in the project folder, this is where we will" create "our php server.

Hint

You can quickly create a new file using the Ctrl + N shortcut on your keyboard and then using Ctrl + S to save the file.

Editing index.js

Let's start! Open index.js with any text editor and enter the code below:

var php = require('easyphp');

php.start(80, function() {
    console.log('(PHP) Server started');
})

In the code above, we defined that we need EasyPHP to start the server withvar php = require ('easyphp'); After that, we added the function to start the server, editing the port and an extra function to be called when the server starts.

php.get('/home/', 'home.php')

The get you can use to define unique URL's. for example, as shown above, if I go to mywebsite.com/home/ it will return home.php

php.all('error404.html', function () {
console.log('Page accessed!')
})

All will get all folders and subfolders that contain php files to be read according to the URL. For example: mywebsite.com/home/about If there is a folder named home and a php file called about, it will return about.php in case he doesn't find it, it will return index.php.

Hint

If you want, you can define a custom 404 page, just by adding the parameter of the location of the file that is the html of the error page.