OS X (Apple)

I have scouted around the last few years and always see that for a individual person to create a dynamic development environment in Mac takes a PHD or something close.
Or there are a lot of miss leading info.
I would rather work with raw code compared to a wysiwyg editor of any flavor.
At this time the land scape looks like Apple is charging $ for the Apple Development Package for its OS 10.6 and up and a lot of people who build Local Development Environments for the Mac are fading out.
And it seems like Mac is not the place for a person to build, roll their own, dynamic http development environment ?. correct me if i am wrong.
Or just what is the knowledge base a person would need to build a local Dynamic http development environment in the Mac.
could you please give me a clue.
Thank you

If I understand what you are referring to, you want to develop web sites.

Most of the tools are already in OS X. You don't need to buy the developer tools for web development, unless you want to compile binary cgi apps. You can use the developer tools that shipped with your OS install media in most cases (Lion is certainly an exception).

I set up my wife's local web development environment (and my own environment several years back), and while it's not rocket science, the specific details are sometimes hard to locate and/or parse.

Did you have specific questions about adding functionality? Where to enable the httpd service? Where .http or .php or other pages go?
How to configure specific features of the web service?

In short, where in the set up progress are you, and what specific issue are you trying to solve?

Thank you flying meat for the re ply.
I have been learning the HTML document for a few years now. i do not follow the slang of web site when its a document with a protocol with a disciplined approach.
i can understand static HTML with Javascript can be developed on any computer with a browser to render the HTML mark up and Javascript.
In the Dynamic end of things i have never seen a real definition , yet we understand it is a use of the server side technologies with PHP and MySQL and maybe some JAVA and sprinkled with some Pearl interacting with the client machine via the humanoid operator.
With that said.
I do understand that the Mack ships with a thrill for those who would like to create their own web site, yet that is static HTML.
To actually tie the existing PHP in the Mack with the existing MySQL and the existing Apache server is a question . and an answer i have yet to see.
as similar for some one new to welding, that person would be new to the language of welding as well.
The computer tech slang and every thing else in between can really suck some times.
I actually enjoy writing code. it may be dry and boring for some people. i could really get into some bash and C. Its the slang and ambiguous ness that is a pain to get around.
But i would just like to get a online business going. And that takes my efforts to learn PHP and MySQL.
I was working with a apache php mysql combo for while and then saw they were getting negatives from paying customers.
Then there is another Mack supported alley for a local environment in PHP MySQL Apache that stopped at OS 10.5, because of the purchase the developer licence deal in OS 10.6.
I came across a book from no starch press that is a guide to setting up the apache php mysql environment in BSD. So now i am looking at stopping at PHP MySQL and going for a swim in Bash and learning its syntax to work with building a environment from scratch with the available modules and other software along with the Bash utilities and such all that are available in the command line tool box.
la laaaaaa la la li li laaaaaaa.
just a happy song.
some day i just might get to the other end.
Thank you

apache, mysql, and php is such a common combination that it gets its own term in the industry -- LAMP. (L for Linux.) Lots of common web software even requires it. Did these customers have specific complaints? ...

Um...

I think we lost track of your actual question here. What is it?

the specifics of the inquiry that was posted by cowlips was in reference to a local development environment for dynamic HTML docs commonly known as web site or web applications.
Dynamic.
The specifics were in relation to the OS environment of Apple and Apple having Apache , PHP installed in the OS when the OS is shipped.
And having SQL some where in the OS.
Apple
The ideal local environment for HTML dynamic docs would have Apache, PHP and MySQL.
And the how to, do it in Apple.
There are instructions to build a Dynamic Environment for other OS`s out there in the open source community.
There is Zero instructions in Apple to combine, make, configure, create a Environment for Dynamic Development of HTTP Docs using PHP MySQL and Apache.
Lamp is for Linux.
The original question was basic.
How to.
Or.
Can it be done.
I apologize for any inconvenience to you or the forum.
sometimes i will spend a hour or two defining and refining a question down to bare bones.
trying.
that is all.
just trying.
thank you.

If you found zero information, then you should probably hone your Google skills a bit.

Google string = Mac LAMP

You'll find 3 or 4 links on the very first page. A couple of those are for MAMP, which is specific to the Mac implementation, and one of those appears to be Lion specific.

So, what was your question again?

MAMP: Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP
How to setup your Mac web development environment
Installing LAMP on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)
Setup LAMP Stack on Mac OS X Lion - I'm Knight


Those results are from the first search string I tried (Mac LAMP) and just the first page of results. Additional results pages, or other related search strings will get you even more results. You'll have to do some reading and determine which method is applicable to your environment, and which will require the least fiddling or environment configuration. I personally prefer not to install package managers that add applications/functionality that is already mostly available on my systems, but that is my preference...