Running PHP 4 AND PHP 5 on Mac OS X

[kilbey1]

I have PHP 4.3.9 installed on my Mac OS X (Tiger) currently. I would like to experiment/play with PHP 5. MySQL is stable version of 4. Does anyone know how I might install PHP 5 in a seperate directory, running it with my present MySQL 4 install on Mac OS X?

(I do realize I can't run them concurrently, and would need to use the terminal to shut down PHP 4 and start up PHP 5.)

[cnperry]

Compile PHP5 yourself... try using this string (assuming you have gd, libjpeg/png, zlip and freetype already installed).

./configure --prefix=/Library/php5 \
--with-zlib \
--with-xml \
--with-gd \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local \
--with-png-dir=/usr/local \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-apxs2=/Library/Apache2/bin/apxs \
--with-libxml-dir=/usr/local

The most important for you is that php5 is installed in it's own directory (I chose /Library/php5): --prefix=/Library/php5

So the correct procedure is this:
(run the above ./configure script with any modifications you might need - may need to sudo it)
sudo make
sudo make install

I'm also running tiger and got this up in a matter of minutes.