Perusing the list the last few weeks makes it pretty obvious that I've been 
trying to hammer out a workable, easily-installed, Mac-OSX PHP-GTK 
environment to support the PHP-GTK app being sold by our growing company. 

And I'm pleased to announce that it's now officially released! 

I ran into many issues, such as: 
1) php-templates could not be loaded as a module into either A) PHP binary 
shipped with OSX, or B) PHP binary shipped with fink. To get around this, I 
had to build this into PHP. 
2) Macintosh autoconf is broken, and can't be used to build a php extension 
into PHP, so finishing #1 proved to be more work than expected. 
3) GTK/GLIB 1.x needs to be patched to compile usefully on OSX. 
4) Never could get GtkScintilla to work - ended up wrapping GtkText with a 
Scintilla emulator class, with connect signals and methods that emulated 
GtkScintilla's so my application works with either one.  (If you need this, 
feel free to ask) 

I have all this work put together into a buildit script, complete with 
everything needed to run an installer on Mac OSX 10.4. It should be pretty 
much "plug and play" for 10.4 Tiger. You can get it here: 
http://chico.benjamindsmith.com/phpgtk_osx/

Look for notes therein (README, issues) and look thru the doit.sh script if 
you're curious. To minimize dependencies, everything compiles to its own 
directory ("/opt/SchoolPathways"). 

I used Platypus to make a "double-click and run" icon that fits well with OSX, 
and FileStorm to create the installer package. (look in the ".../src" 
directory in my most recent package) 

The end result is... basically perfect! The program looks like an OSX program, 
complete with the Aqua/Quartz buttons on the top left, it looks, acts, and 
feels native. I had no issues getting the shell "open" command to open PDF 
files and websites, so the functionality was clean. (I wish I could say that 
about the Windows release!) 

I hope this helps - you are certainly free to use my modified, compile sources 
in whatever projects you may desire. 

-Ben 
-- 
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978

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