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From: "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.php,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:23:41 +0100
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Am 11.02.2013 15:29, schrieb Jerry Stuckle:
> On 2/11/2013 6:39 AM, M. Strobel wrote:
>> Am 11.02.2013 03:58, schrieb Cal Dershowitz:
>>> On 02/10/2013 02:49 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:
--
>>> The tutorial I looked at wants me to install XAMPP.  Is that the best idea for
>>> getting a php development environment squared away given that this
>>>
>>> $ uname -a
>>> Linux fred-desktop 3.2.0-33-generic-pae #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18 16:39:21 UTC 2012
>>> i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> is my platform?  As I look through synaptic for packages that match php, there might
>>> be 2 hundred.
>>>
>>> Before I went ahead and fiddled with it, I thought I'd ask to see if someone has been
>>> around the block on this once, which is one more than me right now.
>>
>> Linux/Unix is the native platform for PHP development. Get a decent IDE with syntax
>> checking, set all encodings to utf-8, start your local web server and there you go.
>>
>> /Str.
>>
> 
> Incorrect.  Linux is not the "native platform for PHP development".  It is ONE
> platform for PHP development.  PHP runs fine on Windows, also. And there are good
> IDE's on Windows, also.
> 

Unix/Linux is the native platform for web development, because the first web server
was on *nix, and it is still the primary platform (http://news.netcraft.com/).

/Str.