XAMPP Alternatives

Laragon is a portable, isolated, fast & powerful universal development environment for PHP, Node.js, Python, Java, Go, Ruby. With Laragon it becomes quick and easy to setup development environments with tools designed to build and manage modern web applications. The bundle is designed to be as lightweight and lean as possible, where the current core binary itself is less than 2MB and uses less than 4MB RAM when running. The project is built and released as free and open-source software, where anyone is free to contribute and help evolve the product.

AMPPS is a WAMP, MAMP and LAMP stack of Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP, Perl & Python all compressed into one. With AMMPS you can focus on developing your application rather than maintaining it. AMPPS allows you to create a website by installing any of the 422 pre-configured applications, customizing it, and then simply publishing it on the internet via a wide choice of hosting service providers.

EasyPHP installs a portable local WAMP server including the server-side scripting language: PHP 5, the web Server: Apache 2, the SQL Server: MySQL 5, a database manager: PhpMyAdmin and others development tools.

WampServer is a pre-configured web development stack for the Windows operating system. With WampServer it easy to manage a local web development environment that includes the Apache Web Server, the programming language PHP, combined with a MySQL or MariaDB database. WampServer comes with an installer that automatically installs everything you need to get started with the stack. Which makes WampServer a perfect choice for developer looking to quickly setup a local WAMP stack.

MAMP is a free, local server environment for macOS and Windows. With MAMP, anyone can start a local web server that can be used to develop WordPress sites or other web applications. MAMP supports Apache and Nginx and provides a pre-configured installation of MySQL, all of which can be used to create applications in PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby.

A free and open-source cross-platform web server developed by the Apache Software Foundation. The Apache HTTP Server is a continuous development effort to build an open HTTP server for modern operating systems. The web server is used by organizations, businesses and hobbyists alike, to power web-based applications.

Zend Framework is a web application framework written in PHP that has an open architecture based on middleware or MVC which follows PHP-FIG standards. The framework is designed to follow the best security practices and stores passwords using bcrypt and encrypts data with AES-256. Zend Framework consists of multiple PHP packages that are designed to run separately or work interchangeably together. With Zend Framework you can develop web applications and services using PHP 5.6+, while writing 100% object-oriented code, broad spectrum of PHP specific features.