How to get php4 extensions to "show up"?

[Mike]

Matthew Seaman wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:46:58AM -0700, Mike wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm running 4.10. And I just and ran portupgrade and got php-4.3.8.  I 
>>read the UPDATING file and noticed that the php4 extensions are now 
>>installed separately [/usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions].
>>
>>Note: I'm running Apache-1.3.31
>>
>>So I installed (make install && make clean) the php4 extensions using 
>>the curses based screen.  Aside from MySQL support (a default) I choose 
>>bz2, gettext, IMAP, calendar, ftp, zlib, xml, and imagick support.
>>
>>The install and registration seemed to work without any errors. And all 
>>possible php extensions are listed in /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini
>>
>>However,
>>
>>When I check php (phpinfo.php) with 
>>"http://192.168.1.40/~test1/phpinfo.php", I get this from the "Configure 
>>Command" portion of the resulting php output:
>>
>>[Configure Command]
>>'./configure' '--enable-versioning' '--enable-memory-limit' 
>>'--with-layout=GNU' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/php' 
>>'--disable-all' '--with-regex=php' '--disable-cli' 
>>'--with-apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs' '--prefix=/usr/local' 
>>'i386-portbld-freebsd4.10'
>>
>>Question: Where are the extensions I selected for installation???
>>
>>I'm trying to install a CMS (MamboServer) and the CMS install routine 
>>reports that php DOES NOT have MySQL, zlib, or xml support.
>>
>>I've had previous success installing this CMS using an older version of 
>>php4 that did not have the extensions installation seperate.
>>
>>What am I missing?
> 
> 
> Check your /usr/local/etc/php.ini file and make sure that the
> 'extension_dir' property is commented out:
> 
>     ; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
>     ; extension_dir = "./"
> 
> If you're running using mod_php4, make sure to restart apache so that
> changes to php.ini are picked up.
> 
> That will let PHP use the correct, compiled in value (which should be
> /usr/local/lib/php/20020429 for PHP4, or /usr/local/lib/php/20040412
> for PHP5) All of your extensions should be visible in that directory
> as dynamically loadable .so shared objects.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew

Matthew,

BINGO! That did it.  Thank you.

I THOUGHT I had read the UPDATING file pertaining to PHP but I missed 
the sentence on commenting out the "extension_dir" [sigh].

Michael

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