PHP 4.1.1 for Mac OS 9

[lilgubby]

Does anyone know where to find PHP for MAC OS 9.2?  Is it compatible?  I have been trying to create a live counter using Flash 5 for my Flash site and am having problems.  I followed the tutorial offered by Jeff, I believe, and actually, that is how I found this site.  By the way, this site rocks!  I love the design and feel.  Jeff's tutorial on how to create a counter in Flash is the best one that I have found yet, and I have been looking for at least a week or two all over the net at similar files on that topic.  When you set permissions to 755 and 777, after uploading the files to one's server, what exactly are they, the permission settings.  

For example, is 755:  
Owner - Read, Write, & Search/Execute
Group - Read & Search/Execute
Everyone - Read & Search/Execute

If not, then what is it?  If so, then what are 777, 666, & 655?  I really need help.  I am trying to learn as much as I can on my own, but after so many hours, days, spent trying to figure out the same thing, i.e. why my Flash counter will not work, I definitely think that it is a good idea to reach out and ask for help.  To anyone that can help me, I am humbly grateful.  Thanks and God bless.  : )                    ~ Erin ~

[flashswami]

Does anyone know where to find PHP for MAC OS 9.2?  Is it compatible?  

*culled this answer to the same question in alt.php*

"you can develop on a mac, but you can't run it on a mac unless you are in
MacOS X
it just won't work.

As a mac user and PHP developer, I can tell you for certain, that the only
way to develop on a mac (excluding OS X) is to run virtual PC and run the
windows installs of Apache/PHP/MySQL

for editing on a mac, try Vim,Alpha,Pepper,BBEdit
all of them have current PHP syntax coloring.

go to www.versiontracker.com and search for PHP and see what you get. (in
the mac section)

PHP simply won't ever be ported to run under any classic MacOS
it comes as with OS X though."

The rest of your queries I'll leave to Jeff- he's the counter dude    

[Musicman]

Hi,

as for the permissions:
777 is full access for everybody - you would need it to for a directory where the server can create new files.
666 is read/write for everybody - you need that for an existing data file that the server will write to (e.g. a counter)
655 would be rw for owner, read and search/execute for anybody else. It is unlikely that this will ever be needed.
444 is a file writable by noone - some software requires to change its config file this way after installation

You would rarely need to set execute permission for php servers, but you will definitely have to set permissions for files or folders that the web process is going to write

Musicman

[Flash-db]

Have you thought about upgrading to the new OS X.

If so this should be some interesting Reading for you.

http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/php.html