S. M. Bjørklund

26.07.2010: Updated and improved to work with MAMP ver. 1.9. If you are not a pecl auto make ninja, pls resort to the manual build if PECL modules then it give you more control.

Uploadprogress or simply any PECL/PEAR module in MAMP

This howto will show you how to get those pesky PECL modules to compile in MAMP like uploadprogress or Xdebug. First a little Drupal background information. FileField and ImageField 3.0 for Drupal 6 released as one of many new features enables us to use the PHP extension uploadprogress that especially come in handy giving the user feedback of progress when uploading large files. Many OS X users are using MAMP to sandbox their development environment but compiling a PECL/PEAR module is not quite that easy in MAMP.

Tired of typing passwords to SSH servers you often access? Well get used to it then this give you the highest level of security out there, BUT it have a tendency be boring and also prevent you from running scripts that automagicly move content between your computer and server. The good news it that there is a simple solution to this but first some background history.