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What OS do most PHP developers use?


  

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  1. 1. Which OS do you use to code PHP

    • Windows
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I would assume most use Windows purely because Windows is the most popular OS.

Yeah, I would assume the same. What raised me to ask this question was that I was in Books-a-Million last night and was looking at all the Linux magazines and noticed all of them had articles about PHP. One of them (which I purchased) even included a small PHP handbook and DVD with PHP tutorials on it.

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I imagine most people develop on windows and put thier production code on a linux server.

a popular combination is LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

I think windows has better text editors though, which I guess could be another reason for windows being used more to develop on.

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I host my production platform on Linux

I host my testing platform on Linux

I host my development platform on Linux

I run my development apps within Windows

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I imagine most people develop on windows and put thier production code on a linux server.

a popular combination is LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

I think windows has better text editors though, which I guess could be another reason for windows being used more to develop on.

I use Windows 7 for localhost development.

My webserver is Linux though.

The same :D and I use aptana to edit the files remotely. I think it's the fastest way? :whistle:

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At work, Windows 7 for editing, Linux for testing and for live. At home I use Windows 7 or Mac OS for both and Linux for live. Android isn't too bad for those quick fixes either. :) I've done several quick fixes in less than 90 seconds on it.

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Programming on Windows with Notepad++, testing on Windows with XAMPP and publishing on whatever platform I have to work with.

Note: amateur programmer, just doing this next to my studies

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A friend of mine (a php developer) uses windows

I use MAC (mainly because i do most of my developing on the go and I have a MacBook rather than a windows notebook)

However, i know mostly people that use Windows for their development.

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I use XAMPP on Win 7 (locally) and NetBeans for editing. My host service provider is Linux where I have a development environment for final testing and my production environment.

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I prefer a Unix environment for LAMP work. I find that there's less friction, and I'm more productive if I have access to the command line. It's often convenient to prototype stuff as small command line apps. I can then play with the output - page through it, grep through it, log it, mail it etc. I also like being able to take my preferred environment with me anywhere. My dotfiles are just a checkout away.

I'm happiest when using tmux and Vim under OS X. I'm running Ubuntu Server on VMWare Fusion as my dev environment. I share my OS X home directory with the VM. I like this setup because:

  • It's trivial to get a LAMP server up and running on Ubuntu Server.
  • Project files and source code live on OS X and I have direct access to them.
  • Server processes run only when the VM is running.
  • I can keep a relatively "clean" OS X install.
  • I can experiment with different configurations without worrying about trashing my OS X install. The VM allows me to take snapshots before I do a configuration change. If I screw up, I can always rollback to a known working configuration.
  • I don't need to set up everything from scratch whenever I upgrade OS X or when I get a new Mac. I can just do a Time Machine restore and be up and running in no time. I won't lose my configured dev environment.
  • It's portable. I can copy the VM to a different VMWare install.

I'm running Debian and FreeBSD on production servers.

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I use Mac OS X. Coda is unparalleled, in my opinion - I wouldn't be able to switch to Windows simply because of it.

I'm actually kind of ****ed off with the lack of functionality in the text editor itself and the SSH client doesn't work great either. I still write most of my code in it as it's great for managing what you're working on. I use the built-in SSH client for very minor command-line work. I do a lot more work in Terminal and vim than I used to.

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I imagine most people develop on windows and put thier production code on a linux server.

a popular combination is LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

I think windows has better text editors though, which I guess could be another reason for windows being used more to develop on.

or even WINAMP

Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP

Okay, I just made that up :p

I use Windows :D

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