Downloading and Installing PHP on macOS

PHP Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Downloading and Installing PHP on macOS

This section provides a tutorial example on how to download and install the PHP engine on macOS computers.

The PHP engine is pre-installed on macOS computers. There is no need to run any command to download and install it.

For example, PHP 5.6 is available on my macOS 10.12 computer by default:

herong$ php -v 

PHP 5.6.30 (cli) (built: Oct 29 2017 20:30:32) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies

Table of Contents

About This Book

►Introduction and Installation of PHP

What Is PHP

Downloading and Installing PHP on Windows

Downloading and Installing PHP on Linux

►Downloading and Installing PHP on macOS

"php -help" - Command Line Options

"php -m" - Built-in Modules

"php -i" - PHP Engine Information

php.ini - PHP Runtime Configuration

Hello.php - My First PHP Script

"php -a" - PHP Interactive Shell

Downloading and Installing PHP Documentation

PHP Script File Syntax

PHP Data Types and Data Literals

Variables, References, and Constants

Expressions, Operations and Type Conversions

Conditional Statements - "if" and "switch"

Loop Statements - "while", "for", and "do ... while"

Function Declaration, Arguments, and Return Values

Arrays - Ordered Maps

Interface with Operating System

Introduction of Class and Object

Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server

Retrieving Information from HTTP Requests

Creating and Managing Sessions in PHP Scripts

Sending and Receiving Cookies in PHP Scripts

Controlling HTTP Response Header Lines in PHP Scripts

Managing File Upload

Functions to Manage Directories, Files and Images

Localization Overview of Web Applications

Using Non-ASCII Characters in HTML Documents

Using Non-ASCII Characters as PHP Script String Literals

Receiving Non-ASCII Characters from Input Forms

"mbstring" Extension and Non-ASCII Encoding Management

Managing Non-ASCII Character Strings with MySQL Servers

Configuring and Sending Out Emails

Managing PHP Engine and Modules on macOS

Managing PHP Engine and Modules on CentOS

Archived Tutorials

References

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