10 PHP developer tools to install in Ubuntu 14.04

The mysqlnd driver has been available since 5.3.0, nearly 5 years ago, and is more efficient than the legacy "mysql" driver. PDO has been around since 5.1.0, 8 1/2 years ago.

So why exactly is this guy installing just the php5-mysql package?

Also, there are limited situations where a remote server needs something like phpmyadmin/adminer for people to access. There is 0 reason to use it locally.