Install Glade on Mac & General Debugging

I took the plunge and installed php5-gtk which is 2.0.0beta from Macports, despite my oath to never deal with .0 versions of any software (well at least at work) let alone beta.

Where are the PHP-GTK 2 Demos from Step 9 here http://gtk.php.net/manual/en/tutorials.installation.macosx-stepbystep.php ?
I did get to see that it works using http://gtk.php.net/manual/en/tutorials.helloworld.php

Has anyone installed Glade (any version) on the Mac?  No joy glade1,2,dev3 between Fink and Macports for me.

I have a command line script that attempts to use mysql_connect.  On PHP4 I would echo an error message if it could not connect.

$link = @mysql_connect($init['server'].':'.$init['port'], $init['user'], $init['pass']);
if(!$link){
    exit('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error() . "\n");
}
echo 'Connected successfully';

When I run this on the PHP5 with GTK2 extensions (without actual gtk use yet), neither the failure nor success messages echo.  If I remove "@", I see the built-in PHP error "Can't connect" as expected.

Perhaps it is just PHP5 syntax I am unfamiliar with?  I had to adjust using $options['c'] from $options = getopt("c:h"); without testing that it was set, and I know that's a PHP5 requirement now.

TIA.

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