phpTriad?

I've been away from PHP for way too long now. There was once this nifty little tool called phpTriad which would install PHP, MySQL and Apache right onto your computer and would allow you to use it right off the bat. Does anything like this exist now?

xampp.

It comes with apache, PHP, mysql and a whole heap of shizit that you don't really want. Although it is an easy install and very self-explainitory.

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

Hope that's what you are looking for

Yeah xampp is the way to go.
Although it's builtin MySQL adminning tool sucks - for that you need MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser (from here). They work much better, plus they're made by the MySQL people...

I reccomend PhpDev from http://firepages.com.au for beginners.

I would recommend wamp5!