Additional PHP Options
I'm upgrading to PHP 4.3.0
What additional packages would you suggest?
I currently have:
Mcrypt
MySQL
zLib
Bz2
obdc
XML
openSSL
sockets
sessions
They were picked from running php -m
Is the Zend Optimizer worth running?
nike_guy_man posted this at 01:09 — 15th January 2003.
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What is GD?
How about the Zend Optimizer?? I'm thinking of installing it... is it worth it?
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 03:36 — 15th January 2003.
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The GD library allows you to manipulate images.
From what I hear about the Zend Optimizer, it's worth it, but I haven't personal experience with it.
hostdog posted this at 04:01 — 15th January 2003.
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The new release of php has gd installed in it already,
I would do zend optimizer also.
postgre is not commonly needed. I would wait on that unless you require it.
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Mark Hensler posted this at 07:51 — 15th January 2003.
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The latest release (4.3.0) has the GD library bundled with it. You still have to compile with --with-gd; you just don't have to specify a path.
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hostdog posted this at 21:10 — 15th January 2003.
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correct also did you see they have the beta of 5.0 out now. Wonder how long until a bug free version is here
Mark Hensler posted this at 04:25 — 16th January 2003.
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I think I read somewhere that 4.3 was to be the last of the version 4 series. Just a bug fix release.
I don't see any beta 5 releases, but I do see that the CVS version has been labled version 5. (http://snaps.php.net/)
I'm hoping that version 5 will be stamped 'stable with Apache 2'.
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nike_guy_man posted this at 06:59 — 18th January 2003.
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Well I decided on:
Mcrypt
MySQL
zLib
Bz2
obdc
XML
openSSL
sockets
GD
sessions
I ran phpinfo() on my 4.2.2 installation (which didn't have mcrypt -- which was what I really wanted) and got the ./configure for my 4.2.2 installation... and I dont even have most of the things installed... like imap -- NOTE: I installed PHP when I installed RH 8.0, so I didn't run ./configure
If you could, explain these to me:
--enable-calendar
--enable-dio
--enable-force-cgi-redirect
--enable-memory-limit
--enable-bcmath
--enable-shmop
--enable-versioning
If I read the docs right, --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs is building it as a module of apache, right? well that failed when I had it as an option... yet I do have Apache 2
I tried configuring about 4000 times... some configured, but wouldn't make
I'll try again when I'm awake...
Mark Hensler posted this at 07:14 — 18th January 2003.
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Try make clean and rm config.cache. I think you only need to rm config.cache when your recompiling after updating a dependency or something. But don't quote me on that.
You can read all about those directives here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.configure.php
--enable-force-cgi-redirect
Enable the security check for internal server redirects. You should use this if you are running the CGI version with Apache.
--enable-memory-limit
Compile with memory limit support.
enable-versioning
Export only required symbols. See INSTALL for more information.
The others aren't on that page. I don't know what they do.
bc is a command line calculator for Unix (you can use it to do your algebra homework as it can use variables ). Though, I can't imagine that PHP would need to interface with a calculator.
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