How to work with PHP?

There are different tools available to work with PHP. They are..

WAMP :

• WAMPs are packages of independently-created programs installed on computers that use a Microsoft Windows operating system.
• WAMP is an acronym formed from the initials of the operating system Windows, Apache, MySQL and one of PHP, Perl or Python.
• Apache is a web server.
• MySQL is an open-source database.
• PHP is a scripting language that can manipulate information held in a database and generate web pages dynamically each time content is requested by a browser. Other programs may also be included in a package, such as phpMyAdmin which provides a graphical user interface for the MySQL database manager, or the alternative scripting languages Python or Perl.
• It supports only Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

LAMP :

• LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, originally coined from the first letters of Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and Perl/PHP/Python, principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.
• It supports only Linux Operating Systems.

XAMPP :

• It is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.
• XAMPP is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X, and is mainly used for web development projects.