title: How to enable php extensions and database support?
body: <p>After spending some time in setting up a local sever in mac os, installing php5, and finally installing mysql I am still running on problems when trying to perform an drupal install.</p>
  
  <p>When going to install.php the page shows the following</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>PHP extensions  Disabled</p>
    
    <p>Drupal requires you to enable the PHP extensions in the following list (see the system<br>
       requirements page for more information):
       gd</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>And;</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Database support    Disabled.</p>
    
    <p>Your web server does not appear to support any common PDO database extensions. Check with<br>
       your hosting provider to see if they support PDO (PHP Data Objects) and offer any databases<br>
       that Drupal supports.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Any ideas on how to proceed with the installation?</p>
  
  <p>More information:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>php5 and php5-gd were installed via macports. mysql was installed via homebrew.</p>
  </blockquote>