Setup PHP+MySQL and utilities on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in 5 mins

XAMPP for Mac OS X
XAMPP for Mac OS X is the simplest, most practical and most complete webserver solution for Mac OS X. The distribution includes an Apache 2 web server, integrated with the latest builds of MySQL, PHP (both 4 and 5) and Perl. It comes as a Mac OS X Installer package which contains all the necessary files and requires no dependencies.

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html

MySQL Tools

  • MySQL Administrator 1.2
  • MySQL Query Browser 1.2
  • MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.1

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html

Notes:

When using these tools, choose “more options” and fill in “Connect Using Socket:” box with
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock

Miscellaneous

If you have MySQL installed before and want to uninstall

sudo rm /usr/local/mysql
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*
sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/My*
edit /etc/hostconfig and remove the line MYSQLCOM=-YES-
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/mysql*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/MySQL*

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