Installing PHP5 and Apache in Ubuntu & Linux MInt

If you are doing any kind of PHP development, you’ll almost always be using Apache along with it.

To install the default LAMP stack

First install tasksel... 

sudo apt-get install tasksel

.. and then the LAMP stack:

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Installing PHP 5

• To install PHP5 you can enter the following command in the terminal prompt:
  
  
  

  sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
  

  
  
  You can run PHP5 scripts from command line. To run PHP5 scripts from command line you should install php5-cli package. To install php5-cli you can enter the following command in the terminal prompt:
  
  
  

  sudo apt-get install php5-cli
  

  
  
  You can also execute PHP5 scripts without installing PHP5 Apache module. To accomplish this, you should install php5-cgi package. You can run the following command in a terminal prompt to install php5-cgi package:
  

  sudo apt-get install php5-cgi
  

  
  
  To use MySQL with PHP5 you should install php5-mysql package. To install php5-mysql you can enter the following command in the terminal prompt:
  

  sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
  

  
  
  Similarly, to use PostgreSQL with PHP5 you should install php5-pgsql package. To install php5-pgsql you can enter the following command in the terminal prompt:
  

  sudo apt-get install php5-pgsql