[PHP-INSTALL] PHP and phpMyAdmin on Mac G5 with OS 10.5.6

[Christine McGee]

The phpMyAdmin 3.1.5 documentation says that, if at all possible, I
should
1. Download the latest versions of PHP and MySQL so that they will
work with phpMyAdmin 3.1.5
2. Make sure I have the requirements listed below (see Requirements
below)

I am a newbie with all this, and I am hoping someone can tell me:
1. Does PHP 5.2.9 (the latest stable version) include the
requirements for phpMyAdmin 3.1.5 listed below?
2. If not, how do I enable, or obtain, these requirements?

Requirements:

According to the phpMyAdmin 3.1.5 Documentation (http://demo.phpmyadmin.net/STABLE/Documentation.html#require
) the following are required:

-- PHP 5.2.0 or newer, with session support and the Standard PHP
Library (SPL) extension.

-- PHP zip extension (to support uploading of ZIP files).

-- mbstring and ctype extensions (for proper support of multibyte
strings , eg. UTF-8, which is currently default).

-- GD2 support in PHP to display inline thumbnails of JPEGs ("image/
jpeg: inline") with their original aspect ratio

-- When using the "cookie" authentication method, the mcrypt extension
is strongly suggested for most users and is required for 64–bit
machines. Not using mcrypt will cause phpMyAdmin to load pages
significantly slower.

FYI – The apple.com site listed these technical specifications
for my machine:
-- PowerPC processor architecture with 64-bit data paths and
registers
-- Native support for 32-bit application code
Do these statements mean my machine is a 64-bit machine, and
consequently requires the mcrypt extension?

-- When compiling php, we strongly recommend that you manually link
the MySQL extension of your choice to a MySQL client library of at
least the same minor version since the one that is bundled with some
PHP distributions is rather old and might cause problems.

How do I perform this manual link?

About My System:

I have a PowerMac G5 (PPC), OS 10.5.6 which has the following versions
of PHP and Apache:
-- PHP 5.2.6 (Zend Engine 2.2.0)
-- Apache 2.2.9

PHP and Apache have NOT been enabled on my machine.

My Plan:

I'm planning to download the following:
-- 32-bit version of MySQL 5.1 for the PowerPC G5, OS 10.5
-- PHP 5.2.9
-- phpMyAdmin 3.1.5

Thanks in advance for any advice you might have.

Chris

[Daniel Brown]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 22:17, Christine McGee
<***@earthlink.net> wrote:
[snip!]

I have a PowerMac G5 (PPC), OS 10.5.6 which has the following versions of
-- PHP 5.2.6 (Zend Engine 2.2.0)
-- Apache 2.2.9
PHP and Apache have NOT been enabled on my machine.
-- 32-bit version of MySQL 5.1 for the PowerPC G5, OS 10.5
-- PHP 5.2.9
-- phpMyAdmin 3.1.5
Thanks in advance for any advice you might have.

Chris,

Is there a particular reason you are compiling from source? If
you are new to PHP and are strictly using it for simple things such as
prefabricated scripts (like phpMyAdmin), you may instead want to
consider MacPorts. That'll ensure that everything is handled with
dependencies, architecture requirements, etc.

http://google.com/search?q=how+to+install+php+and+mysql+with+macports

I am not 100% certain, but you *may* be able to `port install`
phpMyAdmin itself and have it handle the installation of all
dependencies. For that, though, I'll defer to the Mac folks out
there. In any case, it may very well save you a *lot* of time and
headaches for your first time out. ;-P