How to successfully deploy a fully working php/symfony environment in Snow Leopard I: The show starts

This is the first part of a multi-series of posts regarding the installation and configuration of a fully development environment for symfony, the best PHP framework out there.

This will be oriented to a normal desktop Snow Leopard installation on a mac computer, but other platforms would be explained in further tutorials.

We’re going to need a bunch of things installed for this to work, but we won’t encounter any major problems, I hope:

1. Mysql
2. Apache + PHP5
3. MysqlAdmin
4. xDebug+PHPUnit+Pear
5. Eclipse
6. symfony
7. Any other tool to improve our workflow, such us svn, git… suggestions are welcomed.

This post will serve as an index for future chapters, to facilitate access and/or references.