Installing PDO extension for MySQL on Mac OS X Server

Question

I would like to keep the PHP / MySQL combo as 'stock vanilla' as possible but would like to install the PDO driver for MySQL. How can I do this on 10.5?

Answer 1

I had the same problem and was forced to install a different version of PHP from entropy.ch. I'm still having some trouble with the php CLI, but otherwise it works fine.

Alternatively, you might want to take a look at MAMP.

Hope that helps,

Ross

Answer 2

You can compile the extensions separately and simply link to them in your php.ini file. Actually very easy to do.