installing hardened php

I am trying to upload a mysql db to a webserver, and have missing parameters - using large number of columns and have found that I have to change the variables of the columns. From searching on the web - understand that need to install a hardenedphp patch to change the variables. Am using php 4 on Apache 1 on Mac OS X. Am very new to php and sql, and learning as I go along. Have apache up and running (access to db on local host working fine) but have download the patch but don't know how to install it. Is there a simple tutorial I can follow or can anyone help, either with the installing of the patch or with the missing parameters?
The webserver returned the below reasons for missing parameters -
In config.inc.php, try to leave the $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri']directive empty.
Maybe you have a broken PHP installation or you need to upgrade your Zend Optimizer. See http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31134.
If you are using Hardened PHP with the ini directive varfilter.max_request_variables set to the default (200) or another low value, you could get this error if your table has a high number of columns. Adjust this setting accordingly. (Thanks to Klaus Dorninger for the hint).
In the php.ini directive arg_separator.input, a value of ";" will cause this error. Replace it with "&;".
Again being new not sure how to access these helps in order to change them.
Can anyone help please.
Cheers

The hardened php site has documentation on how to install the patch. You can find it at http://www.hardened-php.net/hphp/index.html

thanks for your reply.
have found that but being a newbie can't really follow if, not sure where to enter the code to install the patch.
cheers

All the directions seem to be for the command line. If you are a windows user, I would suggest you contact the people behind the hardened patch to help you out with the installation.