MAMP Introduction

Created on April 12th, 2015

If you want to start learning PHP you may be a little confused with how to get started. What are the applications you need to install to run PHP on your machine? Well, there are three basic Apps that you'll need to get installed in order to run a local PHP server. Here are the three basic services you will need: Apache (web server), MySQL (database), and PHP (php programming language).

That seems like a hassle to install all these services/applications just so that way you can start learning PHP, doesn't it? Luckily, there are some awesome applications that you can use that will download and install of these services for you. One of the most popular apps for Mac is called MAMP, you can check it out at http://www.mamp.info. MAMP stands for Mac, Apache, Mysql, and PHP.

Links

MAMP - http://www.mamp.info

XAMPP - https://www.apachefriends.org

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