When I updated my Mac OS X to Snow Leopard, PHP was updated to 5.3, so I no longer needed to install entropy to use Partuza or Shindig, which was great.

However, I had to do a bit of fiddling to use MySQL in the same environment, so I'll leave a note here. (This information is current as of September 2009.)

Download MySQL #

Download the MySQL binary from here. Select Mac OS 10.5 (x86_64) from the Mac OS X (package format) section at the bottom of this page (although Snow Leopard is 10.6).

Install MySQL #

The installation can be done using the GUI. It will also install the environment settings and startup items. Make sure to clear the path.

Create ~/.bash_profile or add the following if it already exists.

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
export PATH

moreover

> source ~/.bash_profile

If you do this, it will be reflected immediately.

Mumble #

This is the key point.

>  cd /usr/local/mysql
>  sudo ./script/mysql_install_db

And then

> sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php/ini
>  sudo vim /etc/php.ini

Or something like that,

mysqli.default_socket = /var/mysql/mysql.sock

part

mysqli.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock

Rewrite it as:

Now, just restart MySQL and you're good to go. If you start MySQL from the environment settings, you should now be able to use MySQL with PHP.

postscript #

By the way, this setting was only used to check the operation of Partuza, so if you want to do other things, you may need to tweak it a bit more.