Mac OSX has a lot of Unix utilities, they’re very useful. You can start using many of your favorite Unix/Linux application out-of-the-box. But when it come to PHP, it’s not as good as PHP on Linux, What you have is an outdated version and you don’t have new features and performance of latest PHP .In this article, i’ll show you how to upgrade php on your Mac to latest version.
To find out current version of PHP, use this command :
$ php --version PHP 5.3.8 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Nov 15 2011 15:33:15) Copyright (c) 1997-2011 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies
To install PHP, you will need to install several other components like : libjpeg8d , libpng, freetype, openssl, libbcrypt.
you can install it all with Brew using these commands :
brew install libjpeg brew install pcre brew install libxml2 brew install mcrypt brew install icu4c brew link icu4c --force brew install imap-uw
After that I configured PHP with the following options (apxs config apache to use this version of php, it’s importain):
./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --infodir=/usr/share/info \ --sysconfdir=/private/etc \ --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs \ --enable-cli \ --with-config-file-path=/etc \ --with-libxml-dir=/usr \ --with-openssl=/usr \ --with-kerberos=/usr \ --with-zlib=/usr \ --enable-bcmath \ --with-bz2=/usr \ --enable-calendar \ --with-curl=/usr \ --enable-dba \ --enable-exif \ --enable-ftp \ --with-gd \ --enable-gd-native-ttf \ --with-icu-dir=/usr/local/opt/icu4c \ --with-iodbc=/usr \ --with-ldap=/usr \ --with-ldap-sasl=/usr \ --with-libedit=/usr \ --enable-mbstring \ --enable-mbregex \ --with-mysql=mysqlnd \ --with-mysqli=mysqlnd \ --without-pear \ --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd \ --with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock \ --with-readline=/usr \ --enable-pcntl \ --enable-shmop \ --with-snmp=/usr \ --enable-soap \ --enable-sockets \ --enable-sysvmsg \ --enable-sysvsem \ --enable-sysvshm \ --with-tidy \ --enable-wddx \ --with-xmlrpc \ --with-iconv-dir=/usr \ --with-mcrypt \ --with-xsl=/usr \ --enable-zip \ --with-imap=/usr/local/imap-2007 \ --with-kerberos \ --with-imap-ssl \ --enable-intl \ --with-pcre-regex \ --with-pgsql=/usr \ --with-pdo-pgsql=/usr \ --with-freetype-dir=/usr/X11 \ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr \ --with-png-dir=/usr/X11
Followed by:
make make test
Some tests may failed, but it’s ok we have nothing to do with it. Finally, you can install PHP with:
sudo make install
To install other modules like intl, check out pecl to install it. This is my quick guide for system that already has PHP installed.
cd /usr/lib/php sudo php install-pear-nozlib.phar
Edit/etc/php.ini and find the line: ;include_path = “.:/php/includes” and change it to:
include_path = “.:/usr/lib/php/pear”
Then, execute following commands to update & add new channels
sudo pear channel-update pear.php.net sudo pecl channel-update pecl.php.net sudo pear upgrade-all sudo pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de sudo pear channel-discover components.ez.no sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
From this point, you can install many other PHP utilities as you wish
sudo pear install phpunit/PHPUnit sudo pear install phpunit/phpcpd sudo pear install PHP_CodeSniffer sudo pecl install apc sudo pecl install intl sudo pecl install xdebug
note: remember to follow output instruction after install each module from pecl or pear from console screen.
