PHP development on Mac

[mancroft]

PHP development on Mac

I use phpdev on Windows to develop PHP stuff on my computer.

Is there a similar development environment for Mac computers?

Thanks.

 

[BabyJeffy]

I use TextWrangler (free text editor) from Barebones software. I think it's everything you would need for developing PHP on a Mac. Maybe I'm missing something.

Of course - it goes without saying you would have Apache w/PHP running (and maybe mySQL as well)... unless you are pushing to a remote host (slow for largescale initial development imho).

Jeff

 

[rrsub]

I use PHP Eclipse on my Windows/Linux/Mac environments. Keeps it consistent and love the CVS feature.

 

[mancroft]

The trouble with Eclipse is that you need a degree in Computer Science just to be able to install the thing!!!

 

[rrsub]

It hasn't changed much. The plugins are much easier now even when you upgrade.

All you do is expand the archive and run the app within the folder. The wizard sets up the working folder

For plugins, (PHP used to be a small pain having as much as 7 different plugins, now it's 1 comprehensive) just dump into the plugins folder.

 

[mancroft]

What about getting Apache/mySQL to work, eh?

 

[BabyJeffy]

Apache is already pre-installed on MacOSX, and getting mySQL working with it should be as simple as following the directions... I know plenty of people without CS degrees that have been successful in installing both mySQL.

Is this post a real post - or just a troll... because you seem to be making quite a good attempt to brush off suggestions that address the question as posted?

 

[rrsub]

I think I do smell troll. CocoaMySQL is much better than MySQLcc

 

[mancroft]

Wot's a troll?