Comments on: Setting up PHP in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

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By: MB

MB — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:28:33 +0000

I have not run into this problem, no. It doesn't appear that mcrypt is available in the default 10.6 PHP installation - there are some good instructions for setting it up from source here: http://michaelgracie.com/2009/09/23/plugging-mcrypt-into-php-on-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10.6.1/

By: John Guerin

John Guerin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:02:58 +0000

Followed instructions and displayed phpInfo and was able to start/stop MySql 64 bit server.

When I start up phpMyAdmin, I get an error message to the effect that “mcrypt could not be loaded … check php configuration.”

In looking on the entropy.ch forum, users are also posting about this issue.

I wondered whether this was a problem you encountered and how it was solved.

Thanks … John

By: MB

MB — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:22:29 +0000

Nope. :-) Time to hit the googles

By: JOSHUNHAPPY

JOSHUNHAPPY — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:25:03 +0000

thx, php works great.

now i’m trying to test some web applications, but i’m stuck in “how do i create and manage databases?” can you help me in that? thx

By: MB

MB — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:41:12 +0000

PDO drivers for SqLite seem to be included by default, but don’t show up in the config string (they appear listed when I call php_info) – so I assume it’s compiled in as part of the base PDO package – or the Apple binary has it included and the configure string is inaccurate (somehow maybe)

I’m not a fan of compiling stuff from source when there’s an installer available. I’m not a systems administrator, nor do I wish to be.

If you don’t want to muck about with too much under the hood, there are some pre-built options that work pretty well on Mac OS X:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html
http://www.zend.com/en/products/server-ce/downloads

Both of these tools create an apache/PHP/mysql installation on your hard drive in a standard user accessible folder that you can start and stop with a control panel.
You may find that the internal web sharing and xampp will not run at the same time – so turn off web sharing if you’re developing with xampp. Zend Server runs it’s server on a custom port, so there’s not a conflict.

By: John Guerin

John Guerin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:21:31 +0000

good info here … thanks … I assume that the PDO drivers are not included for SQLite or Postgres since they are not on the list ?

I am intimidated by the tutorials I have read on compiling PHP and would welcome your suggestion as to the best reference for doing this.

Thanks …. John

By: MB

MB — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:25:55 +0000

Did you remember to restart apache by turning off and on “Web Sharing”?

By: giovanni

giovanni — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:06:08 +0000

i made everything like you said… everything worked but when i go to the test page i read just this and not the phpinfo page…

if i go in the terminal

MacBook-di-Curtain-Skill:etc skill$ php -v
PHP 5.3.0 (cli) (built: Jul 19 2009 00:34:29)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies