PHP for Mac
Server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language.
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PHP overview
This is a PHP module for the Apache Web server included in OS X. PHP is a server-side, cross-platform scripting language. PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
What's new in version 8.5.7
Security & Vulnerability FixesURI:
- Fixed CVE-2026-44927 (Pointer difference truncation issues) and CVE-2026-44928 (Misclassification of unequal URIs in uriparser).
- Standard Library: Fixed GHSA-9fcc-425m-g385 (a security bypass flaw related to command execution previously tracked as CVE-2024-1874).
- OpenSSL: Addressed multiple memory leaks and improved error propagation.
Core & Extension Bug Fixes
- CLI: Resolved a bug (GH-21901) where optional values in getopt() were being left stale.
- DOM: Fixed a use-after-free (UAF) issue in custom XPath functions (GH-22077) and corrected TypeError throws when accessing Dom\Node properties/URIs.
- Opcache: Resolved a tracing JIT crash occurring during VM interrupts.
- Date: Fixed an integer overflow in php_date_llabs and preserved timezone offset precision.
- LDAP: Fixed validation constraints in ldap_modify() that previously made it impossible to unset an attribute.
- MBString: Fixed a crash when mb_guess_encoding() was passed excessively large candidate lists (200,000+ entries).
- XML: Corrected a segmentation fault triggered under certain XML extension usages.
PHP for Mac
Free
In English
Version 8.5.7
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Apr 19, 2023
Version: 8.2.5
Once again, the description given by MacUpdate is 100% wrong. This is a source code bundle and not a binary package. In order to use it, one must have Xcode installed and be able to compile it. Having found a need to use PHP to create a database-backed web site, I chose to use MacPorts (Homebrew is usually recommended, but I don't intend to install many "sidecar" Mac apps, and MacPorts seems less intrusive. On a plus note, PHP now includes its own built-in development web server, so configuring and running Apache (now called apache2 on Macs) isn't needed. A simple command: php -S <server>:<port> <optional: -t webhomedirectory> is all that's needed.
Dec 4, 2013
Version: 5.5.6
Why o why does MacUpdate track Unix software in the main Mac software channel? Just a suggestion, but i would prefer it if you had a separate tab/category for server software, daemons, CLI utilities and the like. That way, the 90% who don't use it won't have to contend with the added entries on the tracker. (I do personally use a lot of server-oriented software and CLI tools, so i would personally check that category for updates. But my preference would be to separate them out to another category listing.)
Jun 1, 2011
Version: 5.3.0-3
From the developers website;
Note: The package on this page is outdated. I recommend this new PHP distribution for Mac OS X, it is based on mine:
http://blog.liip.ch/archive/2011/04/13/php-5-3-for-os-x-10-6-one-line-installer.html
http://php-osx.liip.ch/ - is the best source for a 10.6 version of php.
Sep 4, 2009
Version: 5.3.0-3
Since Snow Leopard wiped-out my install of the entropy version of PHP, does anybody know what would happen if I reinstalled this?
Jul 31, 2009
Version: 5.3.0-3
Now PHP 5.3.0-3
Thanks Marc for compiling this for OS X - it gets me an easy way to get an upto date php distro, with GD (not on Apple's vanilla inbuilt), etc. onto my server - without waiting, waiting for Apple to update.
