Their “nf” configuration file’s broken, due to which neither pear nor pecl binary works, so tidy installation using pecl didn’t work either.They do not package tidy extension, even though there have been requests in the forum.However, they seem to ignore few major bugs which seem to date around 2009. My beef with the project is that they seem to be focusing on things that don’t really matter a lot to the target audience, like shiny-gui interface to configure document root, specify ports etc. MAMP is pre-packaged Apache-MySQL-PHP stack for Mac. So I’m putting it up here for people to download.Īs most people, I got MAMP to avoid unnecessary complications and get on with “the code that matters to me”. Little did I know that it’d take up half of my day. All I needed was PHP-tidy to get on with life. And that’s why small problems become big issues.
That said, I now have a technology startup and cannot afford to just keep on ‘learning’. Thankfully, it seems like a nice OS and all the work seems worth it. The major work’s rediscovering the right tools and, of course, learning OS X’s keyboard shortcuts. I cannot deny that it’s an awesome device and all that, but I’m still getting used to a new OS. Be assured that you will have almost all the php extensions, you will possibly need.
You will need to download and install Command Line Tools for OS X, and then setup proper symlinks after compiling PHP.
Update: You can download the file I’ve hosted and it may work for you, but I’ve come to realize that it’s better to compile the package hosted here