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I do some web development on my Macbook Pro, and one thing I’ve found is that even though Apple decided to ship PHP5 with Leopard, they did not compile it with (as I have found until now) the following modules:
- mysqli
- gd
I can live without ‘mysqli‘, but I cannot live without gd, as it would mean that I cannot do any graphics manipulation.
Vidyut Luther have a good list of what’s in Leopard and what is not.
For PHP5 there is Entropy, but it’s not yet for Leopard, there is NAMP which looks like a better solution. But then one have to rely on their Apache installation and not the one which comes with Leopard.
I don’t know which is the worst, or the best, but both of the option annoy me, as Apple could have compiled the missing modules into PHP.
Update:
Just found that there is also XAMPP.
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