Question

I need to install a version of PHP that has been compiled to work with Postgres, unlike the default version that came with my Mac Leopard system. How can I do this without somehow disabling the httpd.conf and php.ini files or confusing the system due to having so many of them?

Answer 1

I used homebrew to do this:

brew install https://github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt/raw/master/duplicates/php.rb --with-mysql --with-intl --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --enable-cli --enable-mbregex --with-pgsql

this shouldn’t replace the existing php.ini file, but if you want to be careful, you can make a copy first. it doesn’t affect httpd.conf

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