If you use a Mac for your day to day PHP development, you know that sometimes getting things to work exactly right requires a little tweaking. Well, this new article from PHPMac.com seeks to help you with that - guiding you through the installation of PHP 4.3.7RC1 with GD Support on Mac OS X 10.3.4.

They start you off, getting all of the software you'll need to successfully install - including the libjpeg and libpng libraries for GD. Once those are compiled and installed, they move on to the Apache web server (a quick install). PHP is next on the list with a configure statement that includes the XML and GD extensions.

If all has gone well, you can simply fire up Apache and things will be just fine. If you do run into errors, there is a lengthy section of FAQs near the end. Also of note: This article has been tested on Mac OS X 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.3, and 10.3.4. no support is given to people using any other version. However it is quite possible that it will work on different versions.