PHP upgrade fails

[John Levine]

>  1) Delete the following packages (if installed):
>     - php5-dbase
>     - php5-ncurses
>     - php5-pcre
>     - php5-spl
>     - php5-ming
>     - php5-mhash
>
>and then I tried to rebuild php port.
>
>However, php is not working and the ports cannot be updated.

Try reinstalling php5-extensions, which should rebuild all the ones
that need to be rebuilt.

The error messages from PHP should give you a hint which libraries
it's looking for.

R's,
John