EasyPHP is a windows stack comprised of Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (WAMP) verus LAMP for Linux. The alternatives you are looking for are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WAMPs
Oh, if you are looking for PHP-based frameworks do take a look at CakePHP and Zend. If you are familiar with the ASP.NET event-driven programming model you may want to check out Prado. Here is a great list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_application_frameworks
This may not be for experts. There is a free guide for EasyPHP newbies. A step-by-step tutorial showing how to setup local server on your PC. There are also examples how to install and run wordpress, joomla, drupal, membership site scripts, osCommerce etc on local PC for development and test. I can't put the link here (this is my first post here ), so pls PM me instead.