Thanks for this pointer, Konstantin.

I found that the Entropy 5.2.5 Release 6 beta worked fine for me, with the MySQL MacOS X package version 5.0.51a, using the mysql driver (as opposed to mysqli, which gave the reported authentication problems). I had to change the location of the socket for server and client to /tmp/mysql.sock.

However, I found that the entropy port does not provide tidy support, so I wound up starting with the MacPort OpenDarwin PHP 5.2.5 distribution and building my own.

Cheers, Djun