PHP development for the macintosh

[bradyj]

I'm going to start learning the ol' PHP language, and get into the more advanced side of the Web... are there any development applications for the Macintosh?

If you have an beginner tutorials as well, that would be much appreciated.:D

[Spookster]

Any text editor on the macintosh will do. If you want a development environment then Dreamweaver MX is fine.

As for tutorials look around the manual:

www.php.net

and also at their sister company

www.zend.com

[brothercake]

You know that OSX has an Apache server with PHP installed by default?

[bradyj]

Thank you for the tutorials and advice -- and, yeah, I knew that OS X had the default server -- most of what I'm trying to do is now just trying to UNDERSTAND exactly what the code is , the rules, what I can and cant do, how to use it, create it... basically, this is a whole new ballgame for me and I'm trying to just get my feet wet because I have no idea what I'm getting into, but I'm going to learn it somehow:D

An advice is welcome.