freeBSD PHP issues

[Vince Hoffman]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> kevin kempter wrote:
>> Hi List;
>>
>> I'm fairly new to freeBSD, but a long time Linux biggot. I installed 
>> freeBSD7, then I installed PHP like this:
>>
>> # cd /usr/ports/lang/php5
>> # make config
>> # make install
>>
>> Next I installed PostgreSQL and pgFouine
>>
>> However when I run pgfouine to generate a log report I get this error:
>>
>> $ php ./pgfouine.php -file $PGDATA/pg_log/postgresql-31.log > rept.html
>> PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function preg_replace() in 
>> /usr/local/pgsql/pgfouine/include/reporting/geshi/geshi.php on line 474
>>
>> preg_replace() I believe is a PHP built-in, anyone know how to correct 
>> this, or have thoughts on what I may be doing wrong. Maybe I've missed 
>> some sort of config step?
>>
> 
> You need to install the PCRE module:
> 
>   # cd /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre
>   # make install
> 
> and similarly for all of the other PHP modules you will undoubtedly
> find yourself needing.
> 
A quicker way of doing this is
cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions
make config
then choose what extensions you need, and then
make install clean

Vince


>     Cheers,
> 
>     Matthew
>