xampp

Apple computers and OS X are quite common here at Liip (and local.ch) as developer machines.

But while OS X comes with a not-too-old PHP installation, it nevertheless doesn't have everything we need (for example the infamous intl extension) and it's not that easily extendable with self-compiled extensions.

On his blog today Piotr Walczyszyn has posted a tutorial on getting an Eclipse instance set up with the PHP development tools (PDT) and a Flash Builder plugin to get ready for developing Flex and PHP applications.

On the Ask About PHP blog there's a quick tutorial looking at a setup to use the CodeIgniter framework to power multiple websites (in subdomains).

Cal Evans had an issue - it involved XAMPP, PHP 5.3, PEAR and phar:

Database Journal: "MySQL can be installed and up and running in a matter of minutes with RPMs or even quicker with tools like xampp.

However, there are so many dials to turn, and options to set that even experienced DBAs can feel overwhelmed. With that in mind, we'd like to focus your attention on ten areas that will put you on solid footing."