Posted on Wednesday 6th of June 2007 at 02:30 in Web Development

EasyPHP vs XAMPP - PHP/MySQL development environments

Your personal development environment is an important thing and while Internet access is hard to avoid, there are times when working directly to your machine is the best option - but personal development environments can be a complete nightmare to set up and get working. There are two contenders in this realm in my mind:

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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Easyphp’s PEAR does not work, and is close to impossible to fix...

dom Dodom

Based on my experience, xampp is much better than easyphp. It has a complete package that easyphp doesnt have. It has embedded ssl that is used to secure the site.

Do anyone has a link of full tutorial of easyphp that has an ssl. with a step by step requirements and how to do it..

gab

I think that EasyPHP has a better interface compared to XAMPP. But this is my personal view. Anyway I hope that EasyPHP 2 come out of beta soon..

Omkar Shinde

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