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Hi,

coming from windows xp - I have bought me an iMac, wanted to start coding a new project on the Macintosh and…. uuuuh, “think different”.

Could pls. someone let me know, what do I need to have a good solution for local and remote PHP development. I need a bit more as just a notepad and an FTP… How do you handle differnet projetcs, file synchronisations, mysql-tools, ssh (ok got that on the bash) etc.

I am really interested in your software list to start moving to the mac.

Greetings,
Chris

you’ve already got apache and php installed, but to make life easier I suggest installing macports and then installing your own versions of apache, php & mysql. macports stuff goes in /opt/local, so should be safe from OS updates etc.

subversion for version control, textmate for editing.

I’m happy with phpmyadmin, but there are other mysql apps/tools available.

I do not like macports.  I suggest getting your own MAMP.

XAMPP is a decent one based on my experience.  http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

thanks for your help. I got the Mamp already running, textmate was my first choice, also this CSSEdit is fantastic. I am more interested about all this remote - handling/synchronizing stuff - do I need someting as Tortoise for using SVN or is this just as on a UNIX machine - did not go into macports so far, so the easiest solution would be finest!

You can do SVN from the shell, or from within textmate, or an external client such as SVNX.  Whatever floats your boat.

Ditto for mysql: command line, phpmyadmin, cocoamysql.  And of course Transmit if you want to do ftp stuff.

Basically, you can do anything from the shell, but I would wager a guess that you didn’t buy a mac for the great bash support.

cyberduck might help for ftp as its free. Or a paid solution transmit or flow. (quick google search)

thanks all, great help!

how do you debug AJAX, on windows I used HttpSpy which was very nice.
Could you please recommend some sort of trace the http?

Hmm, don’t exactly know what you’re looking for.  The best way I know of to debug any kind of javascript is firebug.  It will tell you all your async requests.

ups right, forgot about it 😉

Okay, so I have everything already running and will start coding soonest.
Again - big thanks to everybody.

The new web inspector in Webkit (Safari) is also great. Get CocoaMySQL (free) when you can. It will help you speed things up. Enjoy!

just a note on CocoaMySQL and MAMP - when connecting with CocoaMySQL, you need to set the Socket to ‘/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock’ or wherever your MAMP mysql.sock is, and obviously, set the port to whatever your MAMP stack is configured for

I found a great tool for SVN on os x. it’s called zigversion. It’s revision viewer and file comparison util is really handy.

RE Subversion, I’ve been waiting for this one:

http://www.versionsapp.com/

Has been in pre-beta for absolutely ages though.

Otherwise I use exclusively MAMP, Textmate, CocoaMySQL and Transmit. With Firefox with Firebug (essential for front end dev).

Of course there’s also the list of “non-dev” tools that are cool! I also moved from Windows to OSX and the ones I grabbed include Adium, Growl, Disco etc. But that’s for another day/thread 😊

My setup is pretty much the same….

MAMP, Textmate, Command Line: MySQL, SVN and SCP/rSync.

Firefox 3 beta with firebug and web developer extensions.

I toyed with grabbing Firefox 3, have you had any problems with it at all?