Setting up pear, PHING on mac OSX 10.7.2

These instructions are for: Computer/OS: Mac 10.7.2

$ cd ~ ( hit enter )

You need to change permissions on a few folders ( maybe create them ) to allow write access: If the folders do not exist, from command line you create them:

$ mkdir /usr/local
$ mkdir /tmp/pear
$ mkdir /usr/bin/pear

Now via command line change the permissions:

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/local/
$ sudo chmod -R 777 /tmp/pear
$ sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/lib/php
$ sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/bin/pear

(The instructions came straight from http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.getting.php) Now using terminal run the following:

$ wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
$ sudo php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar

make sure you change the Installation Base: ( should be option 1 ) to /usr/bin/pear As well as #5 the PHP code directory! Change #1 and #5 to:

1. Installation base ($prefix)            : /usr/bin/pear
5. PHP code direcotry($php_dir)           : /usr/lib/php
( *** NOTE the other numbers/options can be left alone with whatever is set during installation *** )

Symbolic link to use "pear" from command line:

$ sudo ln /usr/bin/pear/bin/pear /usr/local/bin

PHING: From the command line:

$ pear channel-discover pear.phing.info

Now you can install phing

$ pear install phing/phing

That should be it! HOWEVER if you get this when in terminal:

phing command not found

You need to create the executable file First I added this to my .bash_profile found if you type

$ cd ~ ( hit enter )

$ vi .bash_profile

Then you add this to that file export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/Users/russell/:$PATH export PATH=/usr/local/bin/:$PATH export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH" Next add the executable in /usr/bin/ for phing to run at command prompt

$ sudo vi phing

THEN this is your script you need to copy and paste into that newly created file

Once you save this file, your good to go! You can type: phing at a command prompt and your ready to work