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