PHP 5.2.1

This is a PHP module for the Apache web server included in Mac OS X.

PHP is a server-side, cross-platform scripting language.

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

PHP is a very interesting tool based on the most recent version 5.0.4 of the software. It runs on Mac OS X versions 10.3 and 10.4. Up-to-date packages of PHP 4 are available for Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4, but only security fixes are applied, no new features are added. There is an outdated PHP 4 module for Mac OS X 10.2, but that one is not maintained at all and has serious security issues.

The module includes support for:

• the MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
• the PDFLib PDF library
• the cURL library for various communications protocols
• the GD image creation library (with PNG, JPEG, PostScript Type 1 and TrueType font options).
• the expat XML parser and WDDX support
• XSLT transformations
• LDAP access
• the IMAP client library
• FTP client access
• exif digital camera image metadata support
• transparent session id propagation (--enable-trans-sid) option
• mcrypt encryption functions
• sockets extension (experimental!)
• iODBC database support
• XML-RPC support (back in after I had to remove it in a previous release)
• mhash support
• GNU gettext
• XML-DOM
• PEAR
• CLI Version.