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OSX comes prepackaged with PHP but it is normally a little behind the latest stable. Lion comes with PHP 5.3.6 and Mountain Lion has 5.3.10.
To update PHP on OSX you can get it installed through a number of Mac package managers, with php-osx by Liip being recommended.
The other option is to compile it yourself, in that case be sure to have installed either Xcode or Apple's substitute "Command Line Tools for Xcode" downloadable from Apple's Mac Developer Center.
For a complete "all-in-one" package including PHP, Apache web server and MySQL database, all this with a nice control GUI, try MAMP.