I was also having this issue and found the solution in a single character in php.ini: be sure that the variables_order setting begins with &quot;E&quot; (mine was missing):<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">variables_order = &quot;EGPCS&quot;</span></div>

<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It looks like the issue was due to PHP&#39;s $ENV global being left empty due to this setting.  I&#39;m guessing this is because of the default &quot;production&quot; php.ini that ships with the PHP distributed with MacPorts. </span></font></div>

<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I&#39;ve posted a few additional links and error output on our development blog: <a href="http://echodittolabs.org/blog/2010/03/fixing-textmates-php-commands-macports-php">http://echodittolabs.org/blog/2010/03/fixing-textmates-php-commands-macports-php</a><br clear="all">

</span></font><br>-- <br><br>Ethan Winn<br><a href="mailto:ethan@echoditto.com">ethan@echoditto.com</a><br>
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