Installing PHP Soap on OSX Leopard 10.6.4

Note: There is an update for this article: Installing PHP Soap on OSX Lion 10.7.2

I noticed this article that instructs you on how to install php_soap.so extension on Leopard 10.5.5.

However, this method doesn’t work for the newer versions of OSX and PHP currently out there in the wild.

So here’s an update on that tutorial :

Firstly you’ll need to find out which version of PHP your running, then you’ll need to get the PHP source files to extract the Soap extension:

curl -O http://de3.php.net/distributions/php-5.3.1.tar.bz2
tar xjf php-5.3.1.tar.bz2
cd php-5.3.1
export LIBTOOLIZE=glibtoolize MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
cd ext/php
phpize
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 CFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -g -Os
 -pipe -no-cpp-precomp" CCFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" LDFLAGS="-arch x86_64
-bind_at_load" ./configure
make
sudo make install

It should tell where it copied the soap extension, on OSX 10.6.4 it’s in : (/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626)

If you’re PHP installation is anything like mine you’ll need to enable the extension in your php.ini file. Again your PHP_Info file should help you with the location, mine is located at /private/etc/php.ini it’s under “Loaded Configuration File” entry in your phpinfo() document.

We’ll need to add the extension (or at least ensure it’s there) :

sudo nano /private/etc/php.ini

Search for the extensions ctrl+w “extension” will jump to the extension section, go the bottom of this section and ensure that the last entry is :

extension=soap.so

Then press ctrl+o to write, enter to confirm ctrl+x to exit.

Now all that’s left it to restart apache and see if it worked.

sudo apachectl restart

Happy Soaping!

Note:

To get your PHP Info document create a .php file with the command

phpinfo();

in it and run this from a browser.