This is to help people set-up and install a LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) stack in Ubuntu, including Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL 5.0. You can actually do it with one line of commands but since that’s not the point, let’s go step by step Read more here

Installing some useful modules in PHP
If you have installed xampp for Linux you will see that by default they are already some modules installed for you . But unfortunately for the default lamp stack in Ubuntu it’s not, so let’s install those common used modules in php like gd,pear,curl,memcache,xmlrpc,xsl…