Installing PHP 5.3.0 on Zend Server CE 4 on Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard

Posted: July 2nd, 2009 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: General, PHP, Troubleshooting, zend framework | 9 Comments »

As you already know PHP 5.3.0 is out, with lots of interesting features like namespaces and closures and other cool stuff !

I wanted to give it a try but I also meant to keep my existing Zend Server CE 4 installation.

Because of that I had to compile the new PHP 5.3.0 on my Leopard based Mac…

Find out why an apparently easy task has taken me over 2 hours of debugging, below !

 

Compiling PHP 5.3.0 proved somewhat difficult as I ran into a number of problems like MySQL 32/64 bits architecture, not finding a libraries like libxml in the system, other 32/64 bits incompatibilities and so on.

My troubles started because I had a 64bit MySQL version installed on my Mac (it came with the system) ! PHP itself compiles as 32bits and if you try to compile it on 64bits you will run into other library incompatibilities (btw, can’t wait for Snow Leopard to come out… all will be 64bits !).

After figuring that out, the rest was preety easy to fix !

 

I will tell you the exact steps you need to make in order to install PHP 5.3.0 over your Zend Server CE 4 on the Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard operating system:

  1. download PHP 5.3.0
  2. download the latest MySQL Community Server from Mysql (I used 5.1.36)
  3. open up a Terminal window and go into super user mode (sudo su and enter your login password)
  4. move the downloaded mysql archive to /usr/local (mv /Users/[your_username]/mysql-5.1.36-osx10.5-x86.tar.gz /usr/local/)
  5. run cd /usr/local
  6. run tar xzf mysql-5.1.36-osx10.5-x86.tar.gz
  7. move the downloaded php archive to /usr/local (mv /Users/[your_username]/php-5.3.0.tar.gz /usr/local/)
  8. run tar xzf php-5.3.0.tar.gz
  9. run cd php-5.3.0
  10. run the following configure command:
‘./configure’ ‘–prefix=/Applications/ZendServer’ ‘–with-config-file-path=/Applications/ZendServer/etc’ ‘–disable-debug’ ‘–enable-inline-optimization’ ‘–disable-all’ ‘–enable-libxml’ ‘–enable-session’ ‘–enable-xml’ ‘–enable-hash’ ‘–with-pear’ ‘–with-apxs2=/Applications/ZendServer/apache2/bin/apxs’ ‘–with-layout=GNU’ ‘–enable-filter’ ‘–with-pcre-regex’ ‘–with-zlib=shared’ ‘–enable-simplexml’ ‘–enable-xmlwriter’ ‘–enable-dom’ ‘–with-libxml-dir=/usr’ ‘–with-openssl=shared’ ‘–enable-pdo’ ‘–with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql-5.1.36-osx10.5-x86′ ‘–with-iconv-dir=shared’
UPDATE: Download the configure command for PHP 5.3.0 from here (because FCKEditor keeps replacing — with -)
  1. run make
  2. run make test
  3. If you get an error about libmysqlclient.16.dylib not beeing of the correct architecture do the following two steps:
  4. [optional] run  rm /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.16.dylib
  5. [optional] run ln -s /usr/local/mysql-5.1.36-osx10.5-x86/lib/libmysqlclient.16.dylib /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.16.dylib
  6. run make install
  7. exit super user mode by running: exit
  8. run apachectl restart
  9. at this point you should have PHP 5.3.0 running

 

Hope this quick tutorial helps you, as I’ve spent around 2-3 hours figuring out all the crap MacOSX has thrown at me !

I ran into a different problem afterwards, namely Zend Framework 1.8, PHP 5.3.0 and Zend_Cache do not work together out of the box and spit out this error message: "set_magic_quotes_runtime() is deprecated"; see this fix here !

 

 

If you have any problems or you would like to share your experience with installing or using PHP 5.3.0, know that your comments are welcome !

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