Compile PHP for OS X

phpinstall.bash

#!/bin/bash

# Script to download & compile PHP for os x (restoration of a custom PHP installation after a system update)
# author: Michael Bianco <http://mabblog.com>

# References:
# http://jspr.tndy.me/2009/07/php-5-3-iconv-osx-symbols-missing-_libiconv/
# http://blog.yimingliu.com/2009/02/24/missing-library-symbols-while-compiling-php-528/
# http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43189

# you'll have to aquire a new URL here: http://us3.php.net/downloads.php when a new version of PHP comes out
PHP_VERSION='5.3.6'
wget "http://us3.php.net/distributions/php-${PHP_VERSION}.tar.gz"
tar -xzf php-${PHP_VERSION}.tar.gz
rm php-${PHP_VERSION}.tar.gz
cd php-${PHP_VERSION}

# strip the 64 bit version of apache in order to eliminate compatibility issues with 32 bit PHP
sudo lipo /usr/sbin/httpd -thin i386 -output /usr/sbin/httpd

# install some modules
sudo port install libpng && sudo port install jpeg && sudo port install freetype && sudo port install gd2

# compile and install PHP
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/private/etc --with-libxml-dir=/opt/local --with-iconv=/opt/local/ --with-config-file-path=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --with-pdo-dblib=/opt/local --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-pear --with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --enable-sockets --enable-exif --enable-wddx --enable-ftp --enable-cli --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --enable-sockets --with-curl --with-sqlite --enable-soap --with-libxml-dir=/usr --with-readline=/opt/local

# have to search / replace the following:
# not sure if sed actually replaces the file so the text that actually needs to be replaced is shown below
# $(CC) $(MH_BUNDLE_FLAGS) $(CFLAGS_CLEAN) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) $(PHP_GLOBAL_OBJS:.lo=.o) $(PHP_SAPI_OBJS:.lo=.o) $(PHP_FRAMEWORKS) $(EXTRA_LIBS) $(ZEND_EXTRA_LIBS) 
# $(CC) $(CFLAGS_CLEAN) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) $(PHP_GLOBAL_OBJS:.lo=.o) $(PHP_SAPI_OBJS:.lo=.o) $(PHP_FRAMEWORKS) $(EXTRA_LIBS) $(ZEND_EXTRA_LIBS) $(MH_BUNDLE_FLAGS) 
cat ./Makefile | sed 's/$(CC) $(MH_BUNDLE_FLAGS) $(CFLAGS_CLEAN) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) $(PHP_GLOBAL_OBJS:.lo=.o) $(PHP_SAPI_OBJS:.lo=.o) $(PHP_FRAMEWORKS) $(EXTRA_LIBS) $(ZEND_EXTRA_LIBS)/$(CC) $(CFLAGS_CLEAN) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) $(PHP_GLOBAL_OBJS:.lo=.o) $(PHP_SAPI_OBJS:.lo=.o) $(PHP_FRAMEWORKS) $(EXTRA_LIBS) $(ZEND_EXTRA_LIBS) $(MH_BUNDLE_FLAGS)/g' > ./Makefile

make && sudo make install