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Hi,

I have a Linux laptop which I use to develop at home, however I need something for when I am on the move. Linux laptop has a mighty 90 minute battery life. Windows laptop has an 8 hours battery life.

What would you recommend for PHP development?

XAMPP or WAMP?
What code editor?
Anything else?

xampp with php 5.3.x, aptana editor and you’re ready. I also try to use WebIDE or PHP storm from JetBrains and actually everything I need is intergrated in e text editor, since they released the sources on GIT :D

Server: I have installed PHP, MySQL, Apache and PhpMyAdmin separatly and works great ... so I recommend!

Code Editor: PHPDesigner is the best way in my opinion.

I tried myself to install all of them, but when I tested the speed, I was amazed to see that using xampp my site was faster than separate components.

PHP Designer, good choice, but when you will learn more PHP, you will try to find a much more simple editor like E Text Editor 😉

😊 This are good information. I have never tested speeds.

I am developing in PHP for 5 years, so I think I know what PHP is 😊 I like PHPDesigner because it has great syntax highlighting, useful hints, error checker and integrated PHP manual. It just save my time ...

i would recommend xampp since it works really faster than others

The best Windows development environment I found is a Mac. Swallow the price tag and buy one - you’ll never go back.

Windows 7 kicks ass, get used to it. No offense Jamie, and not that your comment resembles the typical mac elitist comment, but this continues to keep me from being interested in Apple.

Now I’m being purely judgmental here, but every single time a mac user tries to use a PC and then whines about Mac superiority, all I hear is ignorant Justin Long-isms. Then I’m like, “hey jackass, RIGHT CLICK”.  lol

I’ve got no issue with Windows, and Windows 7 is certainly a step in the right direction, but every time I go back to using a PC and compare it to the experience of using a Mac (especially when developing; having a Unix core is a god-send, trust me), I really wonder how I ever did without it. I hate to be an Apple fanboy, but everything about it just seems so much more refined and the UX is fantastic.

Seriously, next time you get a chance to play with a Mac for more than just the Apple Store’s iLife demo, and you actually get to play with TextMate, Apache and Terminal, trust me, you’ll love it.

Jamie

ok ok, i just might do that!  lol

no right click is a pretty big deal for me though, i’d like to have one for the weekend or something. but the price is a major turn off ... and win 7 is pretty awesome, been using it for a year now.

You soon get used to control click, or two-finger clicking on the MacBooks but, tbh, my Magic mouse has support for right clicking anyway, as do all the laptop’s trackpad and the mighty mouse! They’re slowly phasing away from single mouse buttons, methinks…

Jamie

ok ok, i just might do that!  lol

no right click is a pretty big deal for me though, i’d like to have one for the weekend or something. but the price is a major turn off ... and win 7 is pretty awesome, been using it for a year now.

any mouse you plugin has support for right click on a mac. just be default the right click is disabled on the trackpad to make it simple for… well ... simple computer users…

i have to agree with jamie though. i made the switch a year and a half ago after being a huge anti-mac person… once you get to use it for actual work you wont wanna let go. things just work the way you would want them to work. you find little things all the time that make you more productive.

Jamie, I don’t know why you had to bring that in here. I get enough of that at FWS (A webhosting community) where we have the elitist Apple fans. I own a Macbook and Mac Mini, but Windows 7 is better than both of the Mac machines I own. I have not been able to thoroughly enjoy the Mac OS, even on a 24” LCD monitor so… you and I are opposites Jamie! 😊

For Windows 7 I use Dreamweaver I code by hand, and WAMP.

Filezilla for uploading to external websites. Not sure what else you’d need. Sup JasonS? 😛

I use Linux always but in my work I have Windows Workstation, for editor in windows you have a lot of options the best(code completition even with codeigniter):

Aptana 1.5 (because its own php plugin)
Netbeans (is awesome)

This two have CVS, Subversion and FTP plugins.

And for the server if you develop and test on the same machine, xampp is good and very fast to install/configure.