Re: Mac OSX and MySQL

On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 12:24 AM, René Fournier wrote:

I have to create a MySQL for my PHP scripts. How do I do this in Mac OSX? There are a bunch of command line tools, but I'm not sure which one[s] to use.

Well, if you already have MySQL installed, then just use them as normal. Just remember that Unix syntax is different from DOS (lets you do more, actually). If you need to install MySQL, try these: http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/osdb.html the above link is for Apple's own recommendations for installing MySQL on Darwin. Just make sure that you use the source code for 3.23.45, not 3.43.44 (because the .44 doesn't shut down properly in Darwin). I used this technique (not the binary) and it works great. http://fink.sourceforge.net if you use Fink (debian-style package installer) you can have it install MySQL for you (as well as PHP and Apache) but I didn't go this route because I wanted more control over the install process. http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Workbench/2001-10-11.01.html the above link isn't for MySQL at all, it's for PHP, but it's a useful article. Remember to add the "--with-mysql" configure option because this tutorial doesn't assume that you want to install MySQL. Any questions, email me. Erik