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I’m having trouble finding documentation about how exactly to go about “turning on” mysqli. I’m running OS X SL and, as I understand it, since php5 is installed, the mysqli extension should already be there as well.
Is this as simple as adding a LoadModule line to php.ini? If I need to re-compile php, does anyone know of a good link where I could follow along to do that (so I don’t goof anything up)?
Thanks in advance.
Save yourself the headache and install the entropy PHP package or MAMP. Getting all the commonly needed PHP modules working on OSX is non-trivial. Most people I know go with either one of those packages.
Update:
A lot has changed since I originally posted this answer. These days, the most straight forward thing to do on OSX is to use Homebrew.