I'm a web developer who does a lot of work in PHP. The back end database we use is bases on Postgres. I am trying to set my new MacBook Pro up as a development system. I have managed to install Postgres from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgsqlformac/ and can access the database on my mac with tools such as pgAdmin. I have also enabled the bundled Apache and PHP extensions. However, the problem is that I can't get PHP to talk to Postgres. Running phpinfo () on the built in PHP shows that database support extends as MySql, Mysqli and SQLite extensions, and SQLite drivers for PDO. What I really need is a Postgres extension for maintaining older code and a Postgres PDO driver for new code in development. When setting up a similar dev system on Windows it was relatively simple to set this all up. The extensions for PHP were provided in .dll files that you just had to include in the php.ini file. This doesn't seem to be the case with the MacOS bundled PHP. Is it possible to download .so files (I believe that's what the MacOS equivalent to .dll files are) for the drivers and include them from the php.ini file like on the Windows box? Or is there something else I'm meant to be doing? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
