In which I discuss setting up a development environment on Windows, including PHP 5.6, Composer, and your choice of server and IDE.
PHP Download:
http://php.net/downloads.php#gpg-5.6
Composer Download:
https://getcomposer.org/download/
Git Download:
https://git-scm.com/
How to enable file extensions in Windows:
https://glmdev.github.io/go/?id=ext
VCRUNTIME140.dll (C++ Redist for VS) Download:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679
Virtualbox Download:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Vagrant Download:
https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
Scotch Box Repository:
https://github.com/scotch-io/scotch-box
XAMPP Download:
https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
PhpStorm Download:
https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
Eclipse Download:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/