On the SitePoint PHP blog Bruno Skvorc has posted a new tutorial showing you how to get PHP extensions installed on Nitrous.io, an online environment combining an IDE and PaaS hosting.

Inspired by a comment on my previous article, I realized Nitrous was still a bit too complicated to customize properly. In this tutorial, we’ll glide through installing cURL and Phalcon on a Nitrous.io PHP box.

He continues on from his previous article and shows how to detect cURL support and how to build it from the PHP source into an extension. He helps you get the source for the older PHP version Nitrous.io has installed and the commands you'll need to build the extension. With it installed and enabled in the php.ini, he also installs the Phalcon extension.

On the SitePoint PHP blog Bruno Skvorc has a new tutorial showing you how to get started with PHP and Nitrous.io, a service letting you create virtual "boxes" for your development. The tutorial helps you get started with their recently announced PHP support.

On February 12th, Nitrous.IO, the cloud development environment that lets you set up virtual boxes in a flash and use them from whichever platform through their Web IDE, finally added PHP support – something users have been clamoring for. You can read more about it in the announcement, but I figure it’s best if we demo by example and get a Laravel app up and running.

He helps you get up and running with an account on Nitrous.io first then includes some screenshots showing how to create a new box. He includes instructions on how to get some basic information about the environment. He helps you install the Zip library Composer needs to work correctly and helps set up a new VirtualHost for the Laravel site. Finally, he includes all the commands you'll need to get Composer installed and the Laravel instance up and running. There's a quick bit at the end showing how to hook the application into a MySQL database too.