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Running Drupal 8 and PHP 5.3.8+ on Mac OSX

tomo — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:41:59 +0000

I develop on my MacBook Pro and when building Drupal 6 sites, I had to run PHP 5.2 because there were many conflicts in Drupal 6 core and contributed modules which meant running on PHP 5.3 either threw up errors or didn't run properly. Since I run XAMPP for Mac OS X, I also run phpswitch which lets me switch from XAMPP using PHP 5.2 to PHP 5.3 and back.

Unfortunately, Drupal 8 not only requires PHP 5.3 but PHP 5.3.5 or higher. Drupal 7 ran fine on PHP 5.2.5 or higher with PHP 5.3 recommended.

1) XAMPP Mac OS X 1.7.3 comes with: Apache 2.2.14, MySQL 5.1.44, PHP 5.3.1.

XAMPP: Apache Vhosts with SSL

tomo — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:21:03 +0000

I needed to test out ssl on my Macbook as a web server with XAMPP. It took more effort than it should have because I was using virtual hosts as well.

Showing file upload progress with PHP and Drupal

tomo — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:01:23 +0000

PHP 5.2 has support for showing the percentage uploaded for a file upload in progress. If you're not running Apache as your web server,

Drupal's FileField module automatically detects for and uses upload progress support on the server end. This can either be APC (Alternative PHP Cache) with rfc1867 support or with the uploadprogress PECL extension. In Drupal, the upload progress bar looks like this:

You can check to see if you already have support by going to admin/reports/status.

If the report shows that your server has support yet FileField CCK fields aren't updating the upload progress bar then your server has a problem.