On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 06:18:46PM +0100, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
A friend asked me what he should use to write PHP in. Never having done any of this stuff, I had no idea, except that maybe Geany or Kate would work.
What do you guys use?
Also, he is setting up Linux for the first time. I recommended Mandriva to him, as being more familiar than some of the alternatives. But if he wants to run his PHP, once he has written it, what does he need to install? I am guessing that Apache would work, but is there something simpler and lighter for him to get started on?
Apache is so universal that, although it has everything *including* the kitchen sink, it's generally easy to install and works straight away so I'd recommend going for apache.
I run Ubuntu Server on my 'server' system here at home with the default LAMP set up provided as a package by Ubuntu and it 'just works'. I occasionally find something I run that needs another module or whatever but installing that with synaptic is all that's required generally.
Even getting virtual servers and stuff like that working is pretty easy, just a little bit of editing in /etc/apache2 and you're away.