Sometimes developer’s don’t find the perfect startup environment for PHP development when they are in their initial stage. Setting up PHP with Apache could be difficult for beginner if he don’t know how to modify httpd.config or php.ini settings. In my initial stages I have installed PHP with IIS and then Apache and later even tried EasyPHP too. But EasyPHP has no release for PHP5, so that made me down. Never mind after some time I came across a PHP, MySQL and Apache package with which I fall in love. It is truly zero configuration installation to start PHP, MySQL development with Apache over any platform including Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X. The other good alternate to that is WAMP Server if you are using Windows for development.
XAMPP or WAMPSERVER both are good development environment for novice or experienced developers when want zero configuration LAMP/WAMP environment. You can even use it for production server with modifications in some of security measures and optimizing MySQL and PHP settings as per your server configuration (mainly memory). Read the rest of this entry »
