Magento Commerce development environment on Windows

Step 1: Windows stack for PHP development

There are two popular bundled solutions available which comes with everything you need to run a PHP application (E.g. Apache, MySQL, PHP)

Download wampserver for windows or xampp
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

wamp installation should be straight forward, click through the screens and once the installation is done you should find a wampserver tools on the system tray as show in the screenshot below, you can start all the services by clicking on the last option on the menu "Put Online", once it is started type http://localhost on the browser and you should be able to see default wamp server page.






Edit php.ini file to include following entry in F:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.22\bin\php.ini


This will enable xdebug which will be later used from eclipse for debugging PHP application.

[xdebug]
xdebug.remote_enable = true
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.profiler_enable = true
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = off
xdebug.profiler_output_name = cachegrind.out.%t.%p
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "f:/wamp/tmp"


Step 2: Eclipse IDE for PHP development


If you let it complete it helps you with autocompletion else you can disable it by partially disabling packages in magento that should not be indexed, exclude packages as shown in the screenshot below.