PHP/MySQL versions needed?

Report · May 30, 2007

I have been using php 4.3.11 and MySql 4.0.15 on a Mac G5 with Deamweaver 8, I just upgraded to CS 3 and got a new Intel MacBook and just put PHP 5 on it, but what version of MySql is recommended? I put on Mysql 5, but could not get it to work, and am wondering if i can get it off and go back to MySql 4.xx? Anyone? Thanks, Jay

Report · May 31, 2007

jays999 wrote:
> I have been using php 4.3.11 and MySql 4.0.15 on a Mac G5 with Deamweaver 8, I
> just upgraded to CS 3 and got a new Intel MacBook and just put PHP 5 on it, but
> what version of MySql is recommended? I put on Mysql 5, but could not get it to
> work, and am wondering if i can get it off and go back to MySql 4.xx? Anyone?

MySQL 5 works just fine on a Mac. I don't have an Intel Mac, but you
need to make sure that you download the correct version. There are
different packages for PowerPC and Intel Mac.

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

Report · May 31, 2007

Thanks, David. I have your PHP5-Flash 8 book and egerly await your newest. I installerd MySQL 5.027 for 10.4 intel which but it does not come up automatically and there is no MySQL control on the Preferences. I read somewhere that I have to open a file and change some lines of code in a config. file. Do you have any insight to that? Thanks again, Jay

Report · May 31, 2007

jays99 wrote:
> Thanks, David. I have your PHP5-Flash 8 book and egerly await your newest. I
> installerd MySQL 5.027 for 10.4 intel which but it does not come up
> automatically and there is no MySQL control on the Preferences. I read
> somewhere that I have to open a file and change some lines of code in a config.
> file. Do you have any insight to that? Thanks again, Jay

Sorry, I haven't tested anything on an Intel Mac yet. Testing everything
on Vista for my new Dreamweaver book has given me enough of a headache.
However, I'm pretty sure that my editor has an Intel Mac, and he
followed the instructions in "PHP Solutions" without any major hiccups.
(They're pretty much the same as in the Flash book.)

Isn't there a MySQL.prefPane icon in the MySQL installation package? I
have found that MySQL won't start automatically on 10.4 (it did on
10.3), but as long as you install the prefPane, you should be able to go
in and start it manually.

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

Report · May 31, 2007

When I installed the Pref. Pane it poped open with an error stating that the version could not be run on my computer, the new 13 MacBook Inte Core. Thanks again for all your help, I will get over to mysql.com and see what I should have done. I used the 5.0.27 64 bit PowerPC 10.4 osx version. From your PHP for DW8 on page 476 it basically says I can just re-install another version? Is that still valid? Since I never got the first one started, I probably don't have to run the terminal, there is no data to back up, so should I just dump a new version in and not worry about the disc space? Thanks, Jay

Report · May 31, 2007

jays99 wrote:
> I used the 5.0.27 64 bit PowerPC 10.4 osx version.

Well, no wonder it didn't work. The 64 bit PowerPC version is for 64 bit
PowerPC, not for an Intel Mac. You need the version marked Mac OS X 10.4
(x86):

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#macosx-dmg

However, I have no idea what effect installing the wrong version on your
Mac will have had.

Perhaps MySQL should be more explicit by labeling the x86 version "Intel
Mac" for the benefit of the average user. Most, if not all, Intel
processor numbers end in 86. Hence x86.

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

Report · May 31, 2007

Thanks for nursing me along on this David. I got the correct version and am considering just installing it and hoping that it does not have a bad effect, or that the wrong version did not have a bad effect. Will the terminal removal process you had on page 476 help me remove the wrong version? SHould I do that first, or just install the new one and see if it works? Thanks again. Jay

Report · Jun 01, 2007

jays99 wrote:
> Will the terminal removal
> process you had on page 476 help me remove the wrong version? SHould I do that
> first, or just install the new one and see if it works? Thanks again. Jay

No idea, sorry. I know nothing about the inner workings of OS X.

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/