Comments on: Development Environment Made Easy

By: ShAH

ShAH — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:58:01 +0000

Everyone needs a hug.

By: FFred

FFred — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:32:41 +0000

I believe for developper, the best plateform to host website in locally is LAMP.

Cause, if you have some common lib, you can use symbolic link for exemple. Also, it's too closer for your online hosting.

Well, this choice is for me the best solution, no harder to apply and quite cheap.

By: Sachin Sagar

Sachin Sagar — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:56:35 +0000

I used to use EasyPHP. But later I need to use the extension php_soap for PHP5. Since PHP4.xxxx does not come by default for PHP5, its a tedious process to install in PHP4 on Windows. So, I did find WAMP and its great. PHP5 and MySQL 5.0 Ain’t it great?

By: Sally Carson

Sally Carson — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:30:36 +0000

Thanks, this was helpful. I’d love it if you guys did some additional write-ups on how to get a development environment going for non-programmers. I’m a web designer looking to teach myself PHP / MySQL, but a lot of the documentation I’ve found makes assumptions about my familiarity with the shell. I have yet to find a hand-holding step by step that gets me up and running. Thanks again for this write-up!

By: Vilius

Vilius — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:06:29 +0000

If you know a little russian, i recomend visiting http://www.denwer.ru.

This guy has an excelent project called D.e.n.w.e.r whitch is abbr for russian “Gentlemans Toolkit for Web Development”.

Install is very easy although there are a lot of unknown symbols in cmd window, but as in usual install procedure Yes, Yes, Enter, c:\www, ect.

Then you have system with unique approach to have domains on your pc (writes/reads from hosts), special disk (made with subst) and unix like folders structure (/home, /usr, /tmp, ect)

If you need i can try to translate some of texts, just to give others to try this product, i’m using it already 3 years for all of my projects. After project is ready i only need to copy to webserver, no additional config is needed (because it allows you to create identical system at your pc like the one at hosting server).

By: Damien Davison

Damien Davison — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:23:59 +0000

I find Apache2Triad handy too, it may be kind of bulky and lacking perfection but it also includes PostgreSQL, and a few other things which are useful and (minus performance) disappear into the background.

By: CM Harrington

CM Harrington — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:13:59 +0000

Sure, MySQL is easy to use, and plenty fast, but PostgreSQL is simply a better platform, as it supports features that are closer to the actual SQL specification. For example, porting from PostgreSQL to Oracle is much easier than from MySQL.

Not to start a flamewar, but I'd like to see more packages that included PostgreSQL as an option, rather than just MySQL.

How many other visitors on PT are using PostgreSQL as an alternative to MySQL? (raise hands)

By: Aaron Blohowiak

Aaron Blohowiak — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:40:42 +0000

Where's the Rails?

InstantRails for Windows -> php, mysql, ruby, rails, apache

Locomotive for Mac OS X -> ruby, rails, mysql connector (the basic install package from mysql.com sets it up on osx just fine)

By: Colin D. Devroe

Colin D. Devroe — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:08:16 +0000

I used MAMP for my iMac, which is my local testing server.

By: Si

Si — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:38:02 +0000

I've been using Apache2Triad for the last year or so. It installs all the basics for Apache (PHP, MySQL etc) onto a Windows machine with minimal fuss.

Not sure it's entirely what you're after but hey, it won't hurt to share with others. :)