Day 1 - Preparing the machine

In this post I will help you get the machine ready for php development.

The OS that I am using Ubuntu. So I am making an assumption that you all using the ubuntu. Os the flavor is only dependent for the installation purpose only.
To start with we should need the following packages

1. PHP
2. Apache
3. Mysql

Installing PHP

sudo apt-get install php5 php5-mysql php-pear php5-cli php5-dev php5-common

Installing Apache

sudo apt-get install apache2

Installing Mysql

sudo apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server

To test the installation in the command line run

php --version

You will see some thing like this

$ php --version
PHP 5.2.6-3ubuntu4.1 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Apr 23 2009 14:35:05)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies

To test the apache check the following link in the browser http://localhost/ You should get a message 'It Works'