Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, 2nd Edition

Appendix C. Mac OS X Installation Guide

This appendix is a guide to installing the software used in the book on an Apple Macintosh OS X platform. The instructions are designed for administrators, so you'll need to be able to log in as the root user. The instructions were written and tested on Mac OS X Panther (Version 10.3.1) with kernel version Darwin 7.0.0.

After showing you how to get PHP, Apache, and MySQL running, we then present a short guide to downloading and installing the PHP script and database examples used in this book. We also show you how to set up tools that are needed by examples in the book but aren't included in the default Apache, PHP, and MySQL installations.

The Mac OS X environment, PHP, Apache, MySQL, and our code examples can all change over time. This means that this guide may not work perfectly when you use it. To get the latest installation guide in HTML and PDF formats, along with changes and corrections to this guide, visit http://www.webdatabasebook.com/install-guides.

Getting Started

There are two approaches to working with MySQL, Apache, and PHP:

• Use the software that's installed with Mac OS X and add the missing components. Panther includes Apache 1.3.28 and PHP, but not MySQL. This is the easiest approach, but is prone to the problem of the software being out-of-date and, of course, you still need to install and configure some components.

• Obtain and build the software from source code. This is the most difficult approach, but it has the advantage that ...