recompiling php for osx with IMAP support

Yesterday I spent quite some time trying to recomp开发者_JS百科ile PHP for OS X. I tried several guides I found on Google but they all seemed outdated.

Is there anyone who knows how to recompile PHP on OS X? I want to do this so I can make a CakePHP web application that reads information from IMAP. I would love to use this CakePHP plugin.

As long as CakePHP itself dosen't need to get recompile with php you can use Macports

To install imap you can use:

su port install php5-imap

macports offers a lot of "ports" (library) for php and as long as CakePHP dosen't use something uncommon it should work.