Recently, I am in need to use SFTP on one of my PHP script. Fortunately, PHP does support it through SSH2 binding. Unfortunately, however, MAMP doesn’t come with SSH2 extension. So it looks like I have to recompile myself.
Adding SSH2 extension to your MAMP the easy way
I’ve compiled SSH2 extension for Mac. Note that it [...]

A development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio has debugging feature built-in where you can step through the code line by line and watch the variables. There are times when you may want to do the same thing with PHP script running in a remote (or it could be local as well) web server. It [...]

I needed to do this when I want to debug my scripts for memory usage. My problem at that time was that as I include libraries, for some reasons PHP uses more memory even though I haven’t run a single code (other than require_once).
So my idea is to add memory_get_usage() function call on the beginning [...]

On my previous article, I’ve discussed two ways to For most situation, one of those two solutions should be sufficient. There are times, however, that you need more features than the default and therefore need to customize one or more components of your MAMP stack.
For me, the need comes when I need PCNTL extension for [...]

This article will focus on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I have no access to earlier versions of Mac OS X, so I’m afraid I can’t help you much more than providing this link.
There are many ways to enable MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) stack, but the best way, I think, is to use [...]