#Basic php for mac how to

Place this file inside your personal website folder. php file named test.php with this content: To accomplish this, write a one liner simple. There’s nothing better to test the PHP installation than using its own information. LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so I used BBEdit text editor to edit such a file (note that I marked the box Show hidden items in the screenshot below):įigure 2 - Editing the hidden system file nf with BBEditĭelete the character # in the start of the line so that that entire line should now read: To enable it we need to edit a hidden system file located in this path: /private/etc/apache2/nf. PHP also comes bundled in Mac OS, but it’s disabled by default. Now type this address in your browser: You should get a message that reads: It works! Check the ‘Web Sharing’ box.įigure 1 - Web Sharing option under the Sharing configuration in System Preferences Then click the 'Sharing' icon in the Internet & Network section. To do so, open System Preferences in the Dock.

Mac OS already comes with Apache web server and so we just need to enable it. You see that the title of this post has the word installing (well I thought I had to install it – that was my first reaction), but in fact it could be the word enabling because PHP is an integral part of Mac OS X Snow Leopard and we just need to enable it as you’ll see soon.

Along the way I had to solve only one minor thing described in the caveat section at the end of this post.

#Basic php for mac how to

I hit a pretty good tutorial to enable PHP on Mac at written by Angela Bradley that gets to the point: How to Install PHP on a Mac. The first thing I did obviously was recurring to Google and searching for something that could help me get there. So I thought: why not also give PHP a try on Mac OS since its my main OS today? Oh, good idea, go learn something new… :D I still hadn’t played with PHP on Mac and to debug my answer to that question I needed a way to test the code. Motivated by this question at StackOverflow: RegExp PHP get text between multiple span tags, I decided to help.