PHP 5.2, Mac OS X Leopard and Oracle
I wanted to give a heads-up to all the PHP, Mac and Oracle fans that I just had an article published on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). It’s been in the works for months but has only just recently been published. I have to give Christopher Jones a lot of credit for being patient wtih me. The end result was an article that was fairly easy to write but was a bit of a pain. What you see in the final version is how to setup PHP, Apache and the Oracle Instant Client on a Macbook running Leopard. The most unfortunate part of all this is I was unable to get all the moving parts working on stock version of Apache. Instead I had to roll with a version of Apache I compiled from source. For those of you interested in using Oracle the article walks you through the installation process pretty well. It should also be noted I did confirm the same instructions worked flawlessly using the last PHP 5.3 alpha release. To the skilled people in the PHP Community, if someone does figure out how to get this working with the stock version of Apache I would love to hear how you did it because that’d be ideal for most of us Mac users. Comments aren’t possible on the OTN version so feel free to add comments here.