PHP can not find core function

[Yuri Pankov]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:40:08AM -0500, doug at safeport.com wrote:
> I am trying to evaluate two php billing programs, One gives no errors, 
> syntax or otherwise, the other fails to find the mysql_real_escape_string 
> function.
>
> I the later case I assume I have a path problem. It seems that something in 
> the code of the first program is turning off errors. Both programs work on 
> FreeBSD 4.11 and php4. The failing system is FreeBSD 6.2 and php5.
>
> My setup:
>
> php.conf
>   PHP_VER=5
>   PHP_VERSION=5.2.4
>   PHP_SAPI=cli cgi mod
>
> php.ini is php.ini-recommended with the following changes:
>
>   display_errors = On
>   display_startup_errors = On
>   ignore_repeated_source = On
>   track_errors = On
>   include_path = ".:/php/includes"
>
> The following ports are installed:
>
>   php5-5.2.4_1        PHP Scripting Language
>   php5-session-5.2.4_1 The session shared extension for php
>   php5-xml-5.2.4_1    The xml shared extension for php
>
> phpinfo() shows the configure command as:
>
> './configure' '--with-layout=GNU' 
> '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/php' '--disable-all' 
> '--enable-libxml' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr/local' '--enable-reflection' 
> '--program-prefix=' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs' '--with-regex=php' 
> '--with-zend-vm=CALL' '--disable-ipv6' '--prefix=/usr/local' 
> '--mandir=/usr/local/man' '--infodir=/usr/local/info/'
>
> I am not sure what else is relevant. I am quite lost, any help is greatly 
> appreciated.
>
>
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I guess it's not "core" function and is provided by databases/php5-mysql
extension.


Yuri