On the SitePoint PHP blog there's a new tutorial posted with an interesting idea for the use of PHP - running it on an Android phone (a Laravel application specifically).

It was not that long ago that Christopher Pitt wrote an excellent article about writing and running PHP code on an iPad. After reading it, I thought to myself "It would be really cool to do the same on Android": being able to write and edit code on the fly, for example while traveling, and not having to take the laptop everywhere. So I’ve decided to do some research and see what I could come up with.

For this article, you can use any type of Android device. I’ve done it on my phone, but an Android tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard would probably be the ideal setup.

Using the Termux application and using it to install various packages for both development and PHP usage. They also install Vim, Git and Composer to make package management easier. Once the environment is installed it moves on to the Laravel installation (that works just fine), installing SQLite for the database and building out the user authentication and authorization handling with Laravel's "make:auth" artisan command.