EasyPHP vs XAMPP - PHP/MySQL development environments
What I'm looking at is a PHP/MySQL development environment which will manage on my POS laptop (POS = Piece of s***), allowing for simple development and administration on the move. It doesn't need to be a commercial environment, just sufficient so I can develop on the road. There are two good solutions that I know of that I felt like sharing.
XAMPP - a comprehensive and easy to use solution that comes in 4 flavours; for Mac, for Windows, for Linux and for Solaris. It's free too.
"The distribution for Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista. This version contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql."
Quite heavy in options but an excellent and comprehensive development environment.
EasyPHP - a rather unknown installer as far as I'm aware but a good one. It offers a much more lightweight environment than XAMPP, offering: Apache 2.2.3 - PHP 5.2.0 - MySQL 5.0.27 - PHPMyAdmin 2.9.1.1 - SQLiteManager 1.2.0.
EasyPHP gives you a very basic environment that they stress is purely for development purposes only. I opted for this one because of the low quality of my laptop - I figure the fewer overheads the better.
So EasyPHP may be the lighter solution but XAMPP is the more complete package, both are good though. I can't help but think that my POS laptop would be better running Linux (something Gnome probably, it's not bad enough for XFCE). Anyway, I hope this was useful to someone.
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