sunhwan

I installed XAMPP for Mac OS X and installed symfony, and tried to run my project. Then I found XAMPP does not have PDO_MYSQL support. So I tried to install it by pecl install pdo_mysql, however, I was ended up in some problem that I couldn’t fix easily. The first impression was that the path for the php header file was not correct. After a struggle to make it correct, I switched to MAMP (http://www.mamp.info/) and find the peace of mind.

1. Install MAMP

   1. Put these directories in you path
   • /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin
     1. Most files that will be frequently used is in /Applications/MAMP/bin/

2. Install Symfony using peardev (to bypass the memory limit exceeding problem)

   1. sudo /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/peardev channel-discover pear.sy mfony-project.com
   2. sudo /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/peardev install symfony/symfony

3. Setting up Symfony

   1. Edit apache configuration file at /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf
   2. Refer Symfony Documentation Chapter 3

   3. An example virtual host configuration

       <VirtualHost *:80>
         ServerName myapp.example.com
         DocumentRoot "/home/steve/myproject/web"
         DirectoryIndex index.php
         Alias /sf /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php/data/symfony/web/sf
         <Directory "/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php/data/symfony/web/sf">
           AllowOverride All
           Allow from All
         </Directory>
         <Directory "/home/steve/myproject/web">
           AllowOverride All
           Allow from All
         </Directory>
       </VirtualHost>
   

   1. set $sf_symfony_lib_dir as /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php/symfony
   2. set $sf_symfony_data_dir as /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php/data/symfony
   3. Checkout Symfony project
   4. Let svn to ignore cache and log directory

        chmod 777 cache log
        svn propedit svn:ignore cache
        svn propedit svn:ignore log
    

1. I’m using Doctrine as my ORM layer, and PHP CLI seems not working correctly, yet the web was okay. symfony doctrine-insert-sql complained that “doctrine couldn’t locate mysql driver.” It turned out, Mac OS X has php binary in the /usr/bin/ directory. So I put the MAMP bin directory in the path prior to existed path variable.

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