<p>
  <b>Test your php installation&nbsp;</b><br />open terminal and type
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<pre class="codesBash">php --version</pre>

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  you will see something like this
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  or if you will check with phpinfo&nbsp;function you will see your php installation info
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<pre><?php&nbsp;phpinfo()&nbsp; ??></pre>

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<p>
  Tested on mac OSX snow leopard and mountain lion ( intel )
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<p>
  <br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><b>Prerequisite knowledge and software for compiling php :&nbsp;</b>
</p>

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  <li>
    Basic Unix skills (being able to operate &#8220;make&#8221; and a C compiler)
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    An ANSI C compiler
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    A web server
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    Any module specific components (such as GD, PDF libs, etc.)
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</ul>

<p>
  <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Install<b> XCODE</b> and <b>XCODE command lines tools</b> before start compiling</span>
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  <a class="download-button" href="https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer" target="_blank">Download&nbsp;</a>
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  </p> 
  
  <div style="text-align: left;">
    Steps :&nbsp;
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    1: &nbsp;Download PHP source codes&nbsp;
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    2 : extract source code&nbsp;
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    3 : open terminal and change directory to extracted folder&nbsp;
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    4: complie with</p> 
    
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      <span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p> 
      
      <h3 style="text-align: left;">
        <span style="background-color: white;">install&nbsp;dependencies&nbsp;first&nbsp;</span>
      </h3>
      
      <p>
      </p>
      
      <div style="text-align: left;">
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      <ul style="text-align: left;">
        <li>
          brew install libjpeg
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          brew install pcre
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          brew install libxml2
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        <li>
          brew install mcrypt
        </li>
        <li>
          brew install openssl&nbsp;
        </li>
        <li>
          brew install libpng&nbsp;
        </li>
      </ul>
      
      <p>
        now&nbsp;customise&nbsp;and configure php installation according to your need
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    <pre class="codesBash">./configure  <br />--prefix=/usr  <br />--mandir=/usr/share/man  <br />--infodir=/usr/share/info  <br />--sysconfdir=/private/etc  <br />--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs  <br />--enable-cli  <br />--with-config-file-path=/etc  <br />--with-libxml-dir=/usr  <br />--with-openssl=/usr  <br />--with-kerberos=/usr  <br />--with-zlib=/usr  <br />--enable-bcmath  <br />--with-bz2=/usr  <br />--enable-calendar  <br />--with-curl=/usr  <br />--enable-dba  <br />--enable-exif  <br />--enable-ftp  <br />--with-gd  <br />--enable-gd-native-ttf  <br />--with-icu-dir=/usr  <br />--with-iodbc=/usr  <br />--with-ldap=/usr  <br />--with-ldap-sasl=/usr  <br />--with-libedit=/usr  <br />--enable-mbstring  <br />--enable-mbregex  <br />--with-mysql=mysqlnd  <br />--with-mysqli=mysqlnd  <br />--without-pear  <br />--with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd  <br />--with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql/mysql.sock  <br />--with-readline=/usr  <br />--enable-shmop  <br />--with-snmp=/usr  <br />--enable-soap  <br />--enable-sockets  <br />--enable-sysvmsg  <br />--enable-sysvsem  <br />--enable-sysvshm  <br />--with-tidy  <br />--enable-wddx  <br />--with-xmlrpc  <br />--with-iconv-dir=/usr  <br />--with-xsl=/usr  <br />--enable-zip  <br />--with-imap=/usr/local/imap-2007 <br />--with-kerberos <br />--with-imap-ssl <br />--enable-intl <br />--with-pcre-regex  <br />--with-pgsql=/usr  <br />--with-pdo-pgsql=/usr <br />--with-freetype-dir=/usr/X11 <br />--with-jpeg-dir=/usr  <br />--with-png-dir=/usr/X11</pre>
    
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    <p>
      Now test and install if all is good
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      <li>
        <span style="font-family: inherit;">make test&nbsp;</span>
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      <li>
        <span style="font-family: inherit;">sudo make install<br /></span>
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    </ul>
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