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Asked: 2026-05-23T05:22:00+00:00

I’ve never used a Mac for developing PHP Apps. I’m more of an Ubuntu

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I’ve never used a Mac for developing PHP Apps. I’m more of an Ubuntu person. So I’d like to know if installing & running AMP applications on a Mac is different.

For example, if I were to compare Ubuntu with Windows, here are some differences.

  1. You have to enclose php code within <?php ?> all the time for Windows, but on Ubuntu you can use <? ?>

  2. On Windows, when you name a database table as tblMyTable, it changes into tblmytable (all lowercase).

  3. Crons are differently specified on Windows and Ubuntu.

  4. File names on Ubuntu are case-sensitive but not on Windows.

So like this, I want to know if Ubuntu and the Mac AMP applications are different in terms of installation/operation.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Apache and PHP are the same but different operating systems (or distributions of Linux) may come with different php.ini files. I would advise against using short tags (<? or <?=) if you’re planning on switching platforms or hosts as it’s a configurable option.

    MySQL is a different story. It stored data differently on Windows, OS X and Linux. The table names are case sensitive on Linux but not on Windows and OS X. It’s actually a little more complicated than that. Have a look at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html for all the details.

    OSX can be case sensitive or not, depending on how the partition was formatted. Most OS X installation are case-insensitive. Linux distributions are definitely case sensitive.

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