OS X is awesome as we all know or don’t know, but want to know, but with all the ease that Apple gives its users in installing applications some of the develpment stuff that programmers need isn’t as easy to install. Some people go through hell and back to install a workable PHP package on their systems, but those days are now in the past.
Marc Liyanage has created an awesome PHP 5 installer package that includes:
- the MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
- the PDFLib PDF library
- the cURL library for various communications protocols
- the GD image creation library (with PNG, JPEG, PostScript Type 1 and TrueType font options).
- the expat XML parser and WDDX support
- XSLT transformations
- LDAP access
- the IMAP client library
This is great. I spent hours last week trying to compile PHP 5.0.1 by my self and surelly it is not very well done yet.
Would be great to have the a installer for the newer Apache 2.0.52 released today. Until this come true, I will try again to compile it with my miserable knowledgment of UNIX.
The article is misleading. The installer doesn’t include the MySQL and PostgreSQL databases; it includes PHP’s support for them. You still need to install those separately.
Nice catch.
But they have their own packaged installers, no big deal there. That was never too difficult, but getting a working PHP to use them, well….