I’ve just tried to run PHP with MySQL on my Leopard and the first problem: “Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/mysql/mysql.sock’”

I’ve just changed php.ini to:
mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
The same situation with mysqli settings - be default it is not set so you should update it to the real path.
And it works!

I’ll provide a brief list (not ordered) of useful software I use.

• FireFox (with firebug, useragent switcher, deepest sender plugins)
• Thunderbird - email client
• Skype, Adium (for skype, jabber and ICQ)
• Eclipse (pydev, ruby on rails extension and aptana), Idea, Xcode, 0xED (hexdecimal editor) - for development purposes
• muCommander (using it instead of mc/far/totalcmd)
• Transmission - torrent client
• MacDjView - djviewer
• Remote Desktop Client (the Microsoft’s one)
• CR3 - fb2 reader
• Mplayer (of course )

That is all what I need to breath