Snow Leopard includes 5.3 with pdo and gd included - it should work great for sf development out of the box. Leopard includes 5.2 but pdo is missing mysql and it's impossible to get gd to work.
I use XAMPP for development on the mac. The latest XAMPP version uses PHP 5.3 - I recommend using an older version that includes 5.2 unless your server has 5.3 installed. MAMP (pro) has too many bugs that I couldn't work around (file uploads don't work among other little ones). I see they finally released an update, maybe it fixes my problems with it? The GUI site setup is nice, but it's trivial to edit the vhost setup for XAMPP and add an / etc/hosts entry. On Sep 4, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Pablo Godel wrote: > > I heard Snow Leopard includes PHP 5.3 > > Another good option for symfony development platform is using Zend > Server which is available for Mac, Linux and Windows and includes the > latest versions of PHP, Mysql, etc. Great package! > > Pablo > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Tom Boutell<t...@punkave.com> wrote: >> >> [Moving this thread to symfony-users as it does not belong in -devs] >> >> Actually, CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux do not have PHP 5.2.x >> yet, so it is fair to say they are actively bad choices for Symfony. >> You have to take on maintenance of PHP via some less official >> repository or build it yourself, and other distributions don't >> require >> you to do that. So don't go there. >> >> Ubuntu, on the other hand, is a very good choice for Symfony. A very >> recent PHP 5.2.x is standard, APC has been compiled and is easily >> enabled... there's even an improved mechanism for cleaning up stale >> PHP sessions which you don't have to do anything special to turn on. >> So I recommend it. >> >> As for development itself, develop on a Mac for better compatibility >> and fewer surprises when you sync your code to a Unix host later. You >> can use MAMP or MacPorts to get a version of Apache and PHP that is >> good enough for the job. The standard PHP in MacOS Leopard won't cut >> it (I'm not sure whether it's improved in Snow Leopard). >> >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Pablo Godel<pgo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Bob, >>> >>> This is a question that should be posted on the users list, not in >>> the >>> devs list which is only used for development OF symfony. >>> >>> In reality, symfony runs on any Linux distro (or OS for that matter) >>> that has an acceptable installation of PHP. I would recommend you >>> use >>> the distro that your are most comfortable with. >>> >>> regards, >>> Pablo >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Robert Aceti<bob...@cogeco.ca> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Please let me know which 'nix you are using to develop in symfony >>>> and >>>> pros cons discovered in installation of symfony. Thank you. >>>> >>>> Bob >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Pablo Godel >>> ServerGrove Networks >>> http://servergrove.com/ >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Tom Boutell >> P'unk Avenue >> 215 755 1330 >> punkave.com >> window.punkave.com >> >>> >> > > > > -- > Pablo Godel > ServerGrove Networks > http://servergrove.com/ > > > -- Jacob Coby --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
