Today I listened in on the O’Reilly webcast Introduction to Gearman by Eric Day of Rackspace. I thought I would follow through on the machine at hand; a Mac with OS X 10.5, however I again got caught up with the gearman PHP extension integration. A look at and older post Getting started with Gearman based on Ubuntu needed an update for Mac.

First I downloaded and installed the latest gearman. This was version 0.12 and includes libgearman 0.7.
You should always check for any more recent updates.

wget http://launchpad.net/gearmand/trunk/0.12/+download/gearmand-0.12.tar.gz
tar xvfz gearmand-0.12.tar.gz
cd gearmand-0.12
./configure
make
sudo make install
ls -l /usr/local/lib/libg*
#-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  79808 Mar 12 13:33 /usr/local/lib/libgearman.4.dylib
#lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     18 Mar 12 13:33 /usr/local/lib/libgearman.dylib -> libgearman.4.dylib
#-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    960 Mar 12 13:33 /usr/local/lib/libgearman.la

gearmand was installed in /usr/local/sbin and gearman installed in /usr/local/bin

Next we needed the gearman PHP extension from pecl

wget http://pecl.php.net/get/gearman-0.7.0.tgz
tar xvfz gearman-0.7.0.tgz
cd gearman-0.7.0
phpize
./configure
make
sudo make install
# Installing shared extensions:     /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/

Take note of the extension location, as I needed this for the next step.

Php was already installed, which was good.

$ which php
/usr/bin/php

However I found no configuration loaded.

$ php --info | grep -i configuration
Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc
Loaded Configuration File => (none)
Configuration

What exists is a default example only. In order to include the gearman extension I needed to do the following.

$ sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php.ini
$ sudo vi /etc/php.ini

# Set extension directory
extension_dir = "/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/"
# Add Gearman extension
extension="gearman.so"

And a confirmation.

$ php --info | egrep -i "(configuration|gearman)"
Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc
Loaded Configuration File => /private/etc/php.ini
Configuration
gearman
gearman support => enabled
libgearman version => 0.12

Ready now to try out the PHP examples.