how do i install php 5.4 on Mac OS X Lion?

Question

I have downloaded php 5.4.0 from php.net and i want to upgrade it on mac os X lion.

I also want to ask if anyone knows how to upgrade apache.

Thanks in advance.

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hi i have installed it but i don't know how to configure it with httpd.conf

 /usr/local/bin/php -v PHP 5.4.0 (cli) (built: Mar  3 2012 02:41:24)  Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies 

i tried to add this to httpd.conf

as it said but the web server doesn't want to start

LoadModule php5_module libexec/libphp5.so 

Answer 1

I've blogged about how to upgrade your local PHP installation to 5.4.

Archiving content incase of external site failure:

Now let’s upgrade PHP in a few steps:  1. Download and unpack the PHP source archive 2. Install following packages using brew: libjpeg and pcre 3. Change directory to the source archive of PHP 4. Use the configure command to prepare the compilation process:  ./configure  \ --prefix=/usr  \ --mandir=/usr/share/man  \ --infodir=/usr/share/info  \ --sysconfdir=/private/etc  \ --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs  \ --enable-cli  \ --with-config-file-path=/etc  \ --with-libxml-dir=/usr  \ --with-openssl=/usr  \ --with-kerberos=/usr  \ --with-zlib=/usr  \ --enable-bcmath  \ --with-bz2=/usr  \ --enable-calendar  \ --with-curl=/usr  \ --enable-dba  \ --enable-exif  \ --enable-ftp  \ --with-gd  \ --enable-gd-native-ttf  \ --with-icu-dir=/usr  \ --with-iodbc=/usr  \ --with-ldap=/usr  \ --with-ldap-sasl=/usr  \ --with-libedit=/usr  \ --enable-mbstring  \ --enable-mbregex  \ --with-mysql=mysqlnd  \ --with-mysqli=mysqlnd  \ --without-pear  \ --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd  \ --with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql/mysql.sock  \ --with-readline=/usr  \ --enable-shmop  \ --with-snmp=/usr  \ --enable-soap  \ --enable-sockets  \ --enable-sysvmsg  \ --enable-sysvsem  \ --enable-sysvshm  \ --with-tidy  \ --enable-wddx  \ --with-xmlrpc  \ --with-iconv-dir=/usr  \ --with-xsl=/usr  \ --enable-zip  \ --with-pcre-regex  \ --with-pgsql=/usr  \ --with-pdo-pgsql=/usr \ --with-freetype-dir=/usr/X11 \ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr  \ --with-png-dir=/usr/X11      

That’s it. After successful configuration use ‘make test’ to check your compilation and ‘sudo make install’ to actually install the new version.