By crocha913 on

I am installing Drupal on my mac for the first time and I keep getting this error. I am new to macs and fairly new to Drupal. I am running XAMPP and that seems to be working very well. Please help!

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VM’s picture

VM commented

Drupal 6.x is not PHP 5.3 compatible at the moment. Roll back to PHP 5.2.10

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crocha913 commented

i'm having trouble finding xampp that has PHP 5.2.10. can anyone provide a link for download? thanks

VM’s picture

VM commented

it is best to ask in their community.

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lubrifix commented

maybe try one of the versions at this link : http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Mac%20OS%20X/

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lubrifix commented

version 1.0.1 uses php 5.2.9 and solved the issue for me

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ksandler commented

edit your php.ini to disable error reporting for deprecated commands

1. open [xampp dir]/etc/php.ini (for me on linux this was /opt/lampp/etc/php.ini)
2. change this line:

error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT

to this:

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED

3. restart xampp

the installation should now work

notes:
* when modifying php.ini, make sure you have write permissions
* the line in php.ini you want is around line 516. make sure you're editing a line that doesnt begin with a semicolon (those lines are comments and dont affect anything)
* this will squelch all notices of deprecated methods

kpeace