When it comes to hosting PHP on a local machine, there are almost as many options for making it happen as there are reasons for doing so. Perhaps you’d like to run an available PHP-based app for personal use, or you’d like to develop your own website and test it locally before deploying it live, or you want to host a PHP-based application as groupware on a local intranet (e.g. a group-calendar or a wiki).
The easiest way to get started in the world of PHP is to get yourself a pre-packed “LAMP” or “WAMP” stack (LAMP for Linux, WAMP for Windows). We’ve written about some of these in the past. (See links, below.) Well, the folks at DownloadSquad (www.downloadsquad.com) have two more suggestions for you. Check out their reviews of WAMP5 and EasyPHP (LAMP).
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