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?
Install the LAMP stack, install cake PHP (http://cakephp.org/) and Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) [but only is he's going to use a 'Doze box to develop on. Eclipse is goodness though...]
Job done!
Cheers, Laurie.
PS.
http://www.php-editors.com/review/ http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/PHP-HOWTO-9.html