Developing and testing extensions
From User talk:^demon
Hi. Could you give me a pointer as to the best environment to develop and test MediaWiki extensions written in PHP. Should I install MediaWiki locally and work with that, or is there another way round? Cheers, 206.225.134.57 04:31, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Yes, you should definitely install MediaWiki so you can test out your extension and make sure it works how you want it to!
See Manual:Installation to get you started.