Foreword

Lately, when attempting to install extensions for MAMP, I’ve had a difficult time making my extensions work properly because my Darwin ports settings seem to override. Fortunately, I recently found a blog post with instructions that worked. There are a few steps that are different, however, for getting this to work with version 1.9. Therefore, I decided to post the original instructions with those modifications here.

Acknowledgments

The following instructions are modified for MAMP version 1.9 and originally posted by Saverio at http://developers.enormego.com.

Instructions

1. Download MAMP’s “Source” package, located here. If the link doesn’t work, look for and download the MAMP_components_1.9.dmg file located on this page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mamp/files
2. Mount the DMG image and look for the PHP version that you’re using (php-5.2.13 or php-5.3.2) and unzip that archive. (Use the Archive Utility. Mine gets extracted to my Downloads folder.)
3. Open terminal and cd to the PHP directory that you just unzipped (/Users/you/Downloads most likely.)
4. Run the following command in terminal:
   ./configure –prefix=/tmp/php
5. Wait for the configure script to finish and then run:
   export PATH=/tmp/php/bin:$PATH
6. Now, cd to the zip extension directory:
   cd ext/zip
7. Run:
   phpize
8. Run:
   ./configure
9. Wait for it to finish and then run:
   make
10. Wait for it to finish and then run:
    sudo make install — (You’ll need to type your administrative password.)
11. After it’s done running, you’ll see something like this:
    Installing shared extensions:     /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/
12. Copy the zip.so extension file from that directory to your PHP installation’s extension directory:
    cp /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/zip.so /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.2/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/