What is the easiest way to have a local LAMP installation for web development on mac OS X?

Question

I\'m new to mac os x. In the Windows XP world, there are packages available, like easyPHP, wampserver, uniformserver, that enable you to have a local webserver complete with php

Answer 1

Question : What means LAMP ?

Answer : Linux Apache MySQL PHP

Q: and if this was running on a Mac ?

A : try MAMP