jtodom04 wrote
Hi,
I downloaded and installed PHP, which has mySQL already pre-packaged (if im not mistaken). Could somebody help me with the creation of a database for my Abyss server? Thanks.
PHP has the mySQL support pre-packaged. But the MySQL server still has to be installed to take advantage of it:
To install MySQL on the macOS, please follow the instructions in
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-osx-excerpt/5.7/en/osx-installation-pkg.html .
Once your MySQL server is installed, you'll have to use the command line or a tool to manage it and create databases. For that check the quick tutorial in
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-getting-started/en/#mysql-getting-started-connecting which explains how to use the mysql client command line and how to do the basic setup of your main password and create your first database.
Next, you can use a tool such as
http://www.sequelpro.com/ which is free to manage your databases and prepare the data for scripts in PHP.