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

OS X comes with php and apache installed already. It doesn't have mysql installed by default, but you can easily download the Mac OS X version from the mysql website in either the tarball version or a package version.