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Sun, 18 Oct 2015

Yii mystery on Mac

— SjG @ 3:07 pm

I upgraded the Mac to Yosemite a year or so ago. Yesterday, I wanted to do some development on a project that I’d been idly thinking about. Unfortunately, it required a dependency in a package I’d installed via Mac Ports. I tried to upgrade it, but got an error that I was compiling for the wrong Darwin version. This means I haven’t actually updated any of my Ports since upgrading to Yosemite! For shame.

Rather than fix Mac Ports for Yosemite, and then again when I upgrade to El Capitan, I decided it was time to do that upgrade and then fix it. I went through and did so, and upgraded all my ports, and it all seemed to go well. I went from PHP 5.3 to PHP 5.5, and MySQL from 5.1 to 5.5, and it went without a snag — the web server came up and my old configuration was good, databases same. Everything seemed sweet and easy!

Ha! Sweet and easy with software? Not so fast, buckeroo! Working on another project, I found that Yii was crashing — but only from the command line!
exception 'CDbException' with message 'CDbConnection failed to open the DB connection: could not find driver' in /Users/samuelg/project/unicorn_rainbows/framework/db/CDbConnection.php:399

I quickly through a page up with phpinfo(), and saw that all the usual suspects were valid:

  • I was running the PHP I thought I was (Mac Ports version 5.5, not the built-in Mac OS version)
  • It was using the php.ini file I thought it was (in /opt/local/etc/php55/)
  • PDO was installed
  • PDO’s MySQL driver was installed
  • PHP’s configured recognized the drivers
  • Paths to any config files were correct
  • Ports were all normal
  • Default path to MySQL socket file was correct

Of course, this all makes sense, because my web pages that access the database were working.

So why not from Yii’s console program from the command line?

A quick php -version revealed the problem. It wasn’t the database configuration at all! Well, not exactly.
samuelg$ php --version
PHP 5.6.14 (cli) (built: Oct 15 2015 16:20:41)
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies

Wait, what? PHP 5.6? But… how?

samuel$ port installed | grep php
...
php55-mysql @5.5.30_0+mysqlnd (active)
php55-sqlite @5.5.30_0 (active)
php56 @5.6.6_0+libedit
php56 @5.6.14_0+libedit (active)

Yup, somehow, I’d installed some PHP 5.6 packages as well!

To solve the problem quickly, I uninstalled PHP 5.6. I could have upgraded everything to 5.6 (or just inactivated them, I suppose), but I just wanted to work on my original problem, not spend my day on system configuration.