I have managed to download and build PHP 5.3.3 from source on my 10.5.8 system, but there are still vestiges of the old version of PHP on this system -- mostly command-line stuff.

For example, on the command line, instead of just typing "php file.php", it launches an older version of php. To get my latest running, I must type the full path to my new php: "/usr/local/bin/php file.php"

I see that my path is this:
And that there's a version of php living in /usr/bin:
Note that the item there is a full-blown file and not a symbolic link. I'd like to delete it but I'm a bit afraid to break things -- and I'm also wondering if there might be other pieces to this old PHP somewhere.

I'm wondering anyone can give me a comprehensive set of steps to get rid of all OLD versions of php and get my new one hooked in at all the right places. Any help would be much appreciated.

If anything, what I would do man is uninstall the new version of php, then do an updatedb, and locate php and track down everything that comes up for php. Normally when I have problems like that, that is all I do to remove everything. Maybe you could do the same, except using equivalents in OSX? Hope it helps.

Also one last thing, maybe you can download the source package to the old version of php and see if it comes with an uninstall script?

corp, I really appreciate your response.

I'm not really sure *how* to uninstall either version of PHP. I compiled it from scratch by downloading the source and doing the configure/make/make install thing. AFAIK there is no 'uninstall'. The best I can do is probably to delete the source directory, any directories named 'php', and any suspect-looking items. I'm not really sure where/how to find them all. Remember that this is a Mac and there is no 'apt-get remove php' option.

And then there are things that depend on php or somehow refer to them.

Not sure what you mean by 'do an updatedb'. Also, not sure where to locate an appropriate package in this case. It's a mac and it came installed with php 4.x.

Lastly, I'd like to be able compile/recompile periodically and yet the "make install" command seems to prefer /usr/local/bin rather than /usr/bin for install location while at the same time all the distros I know use /usr/bin -- including OSX.

FYI, these are the locations of all items named "php" that seem relevant:

Using that last, try to clean all that up in your system, and then go through your environmental variables and see if there are any references to PHP, and ditch them too. After that, try again man and let me know how it goes.

Which environmental variables? I'm familiar with PATH but not the others.

Which ever ones you have on your system. I'm sorry I don't have much experience with OSX, I am not a fan of macs

well OSX is basically BSD Unix. Any linux vars come to mind?

I'm about to try this....

Found this man http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...iables-in-os-x

Hopefully that gives you the information you need!

Thanks for that link. I checked all the files they refer to for setting environment vars and most don't exist on my Mac. I did enter "export" on the command line which apparently reports my environment vars -- none of which refer to php at all. I'm feeling pretty good about this. I also learned how to get PHP to install in /usr/bin/ instead of /usr/local/bin which is helpful.

Now, if only there was something like "make uninstall"....

That one we will have to get someone else with just a weeee bit more experience with OSX....

OR I can google a bit and come across this link....
http://juliusdavies.ca/how_to_uninst..._from_mac.html

Ehh, is that any better?

I had seen that link but my computer doesn't have an /etc/httpd folder. I must have removed the old web server some time ago.

I went for it and deleted/renamed most of that old php stuff to *OLD and I recompiled php 5.3.5 with a few extra extensions (pcntl) and thanks to this thread about the configure command I was able to alter the ./configure step of compilation so that it put everything in /usr instead of /usr/local. It seems to be working great. I restarted apache and it shows 5.3.5 with all the extensions. I run from the command line (without the endless path in front) and i get 5.3.5. I'm feeling pretty good about this.

The one bizarre thing was that php complained about not finding a php.ini file -- you think it would generate one?

Anyways, it seems to be working. Thanks for the tips.

I would think that it would.... LOL

But awesome man, glad to help out.