This year i'm doing advent of code in PHP 7.4. I'm pretty ok in PHP. Used composer to pull in some helpful additions
Start by running composer update do download dependencies
Copy .env.example to .env and set the environment variable called AOC_SESSION with the session cookie of adventofcode.com
If you run your day solution for the first time you can use php download.php <DAYNUMBER> to download the puzzle input in it's own directory
It will also copy template.php to the directory and name it run.php, you may freely change the template file to your own needs
- Day 5, part 2 rendered to image
