Re: Postgres from PHP in Leopard

On Dec 19, 11:32 am, Gordon <gordon(dot)mc(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)ntlworld(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm a web developer who does a lot of work in PHP. The back end
> database we use is bases on Postgres. I am trying to set my new
> MacBook Pro up as a development system.
>
> I have managed to install Postgres fromhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/pgsqlformac/
> and can access the database on my mac with tools such as pgAdmin. I
> have also enabled the bundled Apache and PHP extensions.
>
> However, the problem is that I can't get PHP to talk to Postgres.
> Running phpinfo () on the built in PHP shows that database support
> extends as MySql, Mysqli and SQLite extensions, and SQLite drivers for
> PDO. What I really need is a Postgres extension for maintaining older
> code and a Postgres PDO driver for new code in development.
>
> When setting up a similar dev system on Windows it was relatively
> simple to set this all up. The extensions for PHP were provided
> in .dll files that you just had to include in the php.ini file. This
> doesn't seem to be the case with the MacOS bundled PHP.
>
> Is it possible to download .so files (I believe that's what the MacOS
> equivalent to .dll files are) for the drivers and include them from
> the php.ini file like on the Windows box? Or is there something else
> I'm meant to be doing?

Anyone?