How to enable PDO_MYSQL in 5.2.4 PHP included into Leopard

Thank you for this awesome guide. I'm using symfony and needed cli support for pdo_mysql too. In Leopard the cli php is located at /usr/bin/php so I moved this to php.bak and created a symlink to the new php package. I did it like this:

cd /usr/bin
sudo mv php php.bak
ln -s /usr/local/php5/bin/php php

Hope this helps someone else out.

I ran into this one also.
Here's how I solved it (on two computers)

I started with clean installs of Leopard.

1. Make sure you've got the developer tools installed. I don't know why they're important but they seem to be.
2. Download and install one of the packages from www.entropy.ch (I installed Entropy PHP 5.2.9-7)
3. If you haven't already installed MySQL do that.

I don't like the why Leopard handles virtual hosts, so I've started using VirtualHostX. (it's $9.00)

I set up a dev site (test.dev) and pointed it at the folder I wanted to use, created a phpinfo(); page and all the bits and pieces that I need, especially PDO_MySQL is there, intact and working.

A couple notes.
* Make sure you read the postings at entropy.ch that are in the same thread as the package that you download. Mark (who runs entropy.ch) is incredibly generous and helpful.
* Currently the CLI for PHP is broken. I don't know why. That's what I'll fix next.
* Don't bother asking Apple (I did). They're great people, but singularly not helpful with this problem. They can't even tell me who's great idea it was to disable PDO_MySQL in stock Apple installation of PHP.

Hope this helps.
C