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

Five years later, i believe this question and existing answers still reading by some newcomers.

Personally, i strongly recommend using Homebrew to have a perfect development environment on mac os x. Not only PHP, homebrew opens wide all the doors to the open source toolkit/library/application heaven.

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