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Great article on getting php mysql running on Snow Leopord. One caveat however, the poster talks about renaming the mysql folder in /usr/local/. In the comments other users point out that you shouldn’t do this, instead you should create a symbolic link to this folder.

So Instead of renaming the folder mysql-5.0.77-osx10.5-x86_32 to mysql you should create a symbolic link called mysql that points to the mysql-5.0.77-osx10.5-x86_32 folder. Further more you might run into problems if you use the folder mysql-5.0.77-osx10.5-x86_32 as this is the 32bit version. I had a version named mysql-5.1.35-osx10.5-x86_64 which is both a newer version and 64 bit. This is the reason for creating the symbolic link I guess, so you can keep multiple versions of mysql, nicely labeled and activate the one you need. Once I set this up everything was worked great.

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