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A few quick notes about building MySQL 5.x and getting it working under Leopard:

• Follow Dan Benjamin’s excellent MySQL on Leopard tutorial.
• Copy the PHP configuration example to the actual expected location: sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php.ini
• Edit it, and add /private/tmp/mysql.sock to both mysql.default_socket and mysqli.default_socket.
• Save, and restart Apache: sudo apachectl graceful

Once completed, the default PHP5 setup that comes with Mac OS X 10.5.x will be able to communicate with the MySQL version built using the above linked tutorial. Time to get developing!