<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Advantage in using MAMP is that it makes it easy for those that don't want to mess in the terminal with settings and downloading packages. <div><br></div><div>Plus it comes with a nice interface for accessing phpMyAdmin, sqlite and php.ini info.</div><div><br></div><div>So for those starting like the original poster, that would be something I would recommend over using macosx preinstalled software, but all boils down to personal preference.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope with the info everyone has provided helps you out.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 5, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Brandon M Fryslie wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Is MAMP relatively similar to XAMPP?</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>MAMP stands for Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP</div>
<div><br></div><div>It is an adaptation of the phrase "LAMP stack" which is Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.</div><div><br></div><div>OS X has Apache and PHP built in. To turn on Apache, check Web Sharing in the Sharing panel of System Preferences.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To turn on PHP, uncomment a line in the file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf</div><div><br></div><div>Change:</div><div><div>#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so</div></div><div><br></div><div>To:</div>
<div><div>LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so</div></div><div><br></div><div>For MySQL, install the package manager <a href="http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/">Homebrew</a>, and then at the terminal type:</div>
<div><br></div><div>brew install mysql</div><div><br></div><div>It's that easy!</div>
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