Install zip extension for PHP --enable-zip on Mac OS X

Question

I'd like to install the following but am not sure where I should add --enable-zip? Is there more to it than putting it in php.ini ?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/zip.installation.php

Answer 1

This kind of --enable-xyz, or --with-xyz are passed to the configure script, which is the first step (after downloading / decompressing the sources, obviously) when compiling PHP from source.

See Installation on Unix System > Apache 2.x on Unix systems for more informations about that ; and, especialy, the part that gives an example of configure call :

10. Now, configure your PHP.  This is where you customize your PHP
    with various options, like which extensions will be enabled.  Do a
    ./configure --help for a list of available options.  In our example
    we'll do a simple configure with Apache 2 and MySQL support.  Your
    path to apxs may differ, in fact, the binary may even be named apxs2 on
    your system. 

      ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql

If you want / need to recompile PHP with that --enable-zip option, it'll go right in this command.