If you’re going to be doing PHP development, you should download Laravel. Symfony and Laravel are the most popular and best frameworks for PHP in the world. To get Laravel on your machine you can follow the instructions on the quick start page 1. You will need PHP7 with the OpenSSL, PDO, Mbstring, Tokenizer, and XML PHP. It also requires PHP version 5.6.4 or above enabled. You know how to install those, right? Awesome. But just in case, on Ubuntu, use the following code.
Install PHP and a Few Dependencies
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install php7.0 ...