Setting up a small PHP box?

[Terrier_Jimlad]

So, i've hosted more sites than I care to remember, always use a combo of WHM and cPanel as it's easy to use. At work, i'm a pure Windows server techy, never divuldge in to anything else ... However, I want to start running some of my php/sql apps at work and need to get a server up and running for it. We use VMWare ESX so I can setup a server in seconds, but i've never ran PHP and was wondering if anyone has a few steps ... something simple would be good, fed up of reading the massive 100 page tutorials

No worries if not, cheers!