Comments on: PHP 5.3 on OSX

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:25:12 +0000

MacPorts it is! I actually went ahead and installed multiple versions of PHP on my machine.

By: derek fong

derek fong — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:41:40 +0000

While Snow Leopard does come with PHP 5.3, Apple does not update it regularly and I don’t know of a way to easily install PHP extensions when you need them. Updating to new releases of PHP, maintaining two versions (5.2 + 5.3, if you need them both), and installing new extensions are all made much easier with MacPorts.

By: shaun

shaun — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:16:26 +0000

I am currently running 10.6.2

blahblah:~ shaunb$ 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
blahblah:~ shaunb$

If I am not mistaken the 10.6.X php install is a 64 bit compilation.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:34:08 +0000

@Ted I got Snow Leopard, but php -v gives me 5.2.11. MacPorts was indeed a good solution to upgrade my PHP.

By: Urkman

Urkman — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:02:48 +0000

Here is my Development Enviroment on my MacBook( 10.6 )
– ZendServer CE( installs almost everything you need like, Apache, php 5.3, mysql )
– PostgreSQL ( this is my main DB )
– Netbeans ( best IDE for php )
– SmartSVN

And with that everything is setup on my MacBook.

One thing I did on installation of OSX: I choose a casesensitive filesystem, because I deploy to a linux maschine…

I’m very happy with all this stuff and development is just fun

Urkman

By: pj

pj — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:00:51 +0000

why not just use MacPorts? It is very easy to install and upgrade to the latest and greatest versions as well as add extensions etc, plus its more more consistent.

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:52:42 +0000

Is upgrading to Snow Leopard an option? You get PHP 5.3 out of the box, along with newer versions of other stuff like Ruby, Rails, etc.

By: Mamsaac

Mamsaac — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:29:23 +0000

Considering that XAMPP has PHP 5.3.1 packages for Windows, I would expect such version to be available for Mac OS pretty soon.

By: derek fong

derek fong — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:55:25 +0000

@Anna I used these instructions to get set up with a complete PHP/MySQL dev environment on my MacBook Pro last year – http://2tbsp.com/content/install_apache_2_and_php_5_macports. It looks like a lot to jump through but in reality, it took me less than an hour to get everything working just as I wanted it. And yes, the biggest benefit is that installing new modules or updating PHP is really simple since dependencies are managed by MacPorts. Porticus is a nice GUI wrapper for the ports command line tool if you prefer port management that way. (BTW, FWIW, I don’t use the MySQL server from MacPorts — I use the Community edition from mysql.com, but that’s mainly because I already had a working MySQL DB prior to installing MacPorts.)

Good luck! =)

By: Artur Ejsmont

Artur Ejsmont — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:29:01 +0000

im currently forced to develop on mac and i hate it to be honest : ) it has been a year and im not into it at all! if it werent for macports it would be a 100% useless os made for simpletons ; )

throwing that to a side i would suggest ports indeed. i also heard new version of macos ships with php5.3 but i dont know details as i have not used it.

Why would companies insist on developing on totally differnet arch then deploy to? these tiny version numbers or missing extensions or os specyfic errors are serious pain. I used to work on windows for 2 years as well and seriously it was same pain. Develop on ubuntu, delpoy to debian : ) that would be my dream now : )