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[Joshua Pokotilow]

[liyanage]

[ralphrmartin]

Marc

another data point for my observation above about a phpmyadmin triggered crash:

If I fire up httpd in 32 bit mode using
arch -i386 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND

then your php module seems to work fine, and there is no longer a crash when logging in with phpmyadmin.

It therefore seems something is not quite right with the 64 bit version of the build.

Hope this helps.

Ralph

[bobcole]

Marc:
I encountered the same failure to install problem as previously described by others. I looked through the system console log to see what is said about the post flight segment. That led me to look at the activate-entropy.php.pl python script which I tried to understand even though I don't know python.

I found out that, according to www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/module-subprocess.html, the os.system() command has been replaced. You might take a look to see if that is causing any problems with your script.

Also, the -h flag on the unix command (test -h) has been deprecated according to the man test page which suggests using the -L flag for compatibility.
I appreciate all the work you do on this project.
I hope this helps.
Bob

[liyanage]

Bob: We are not working on or discussing the installer python scripts here right now.

I know they don't work and they will be rewritten once the software itself is ready. Right now we are discussing the PHP module itself, not the installer mechanism.

[starck]

Hi all . . .

I am not aware of these NDA rules (or what that means) but I would like to confirm that I can verify that PHP 5.2.4 with GD support works just fine on an INTEL iMAC under OS X.5.1 Leopard.

As of a couple of weeks ago . . . .

This was the .tar.gz of the of the PHP5 for Leopard. . . .
http://www2.entropy.ch/download/php5.leopard.20071101.tar.gz

1. Download it.

2. Simply movie/drag the whole upzipped folder and drop it into usr/local/ (so the path to the folder is /usr/local/php5). You will be prompted to Authenticate the move.

3. Manually edit the /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file to load /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so
The uncommented line should read. . . .
“LoadModule php5_module local/php5/libphp5.so”
(no quotes of course)
4. Restart Apache and hit your test.php file to verify that GD is now listed as an extension.

Was the easiest way I could find to get PHP5.2.4 working with GD.

Cheers!
_________________
- Chris

[willytk]

Hello there
I installed the php5-5.2.5.leopard.release1.tar on my G5 Dual 2.3 Ghz with Leopard 10.5.1. I get the nice Entropy php info, but when I do a apachectl configtest I get the following:

[jpaffett]

Marc,

I'm aware that the effort to get this up and running is obviously putting some strain on your resources. Do you think there's a case for opening up the work to an open source project, to produce the full featured OS X PHP packages?

Please don't take this as a criticism. I just feel that with a growing community of developers depending on OS X and PHP for their development environment, there ought to be a bit more ownership of the problem by that community.

[sstringer]

Using starck's suggested method of simply copying the unzipped php5 folder to /usr/local (above), I was unable to get Apache to run.

Trying php5.leopard.20071101.tar.gz, I got the following error:

[jimhu]

On a brand-new MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo

1. Download http://www2.entropy.ch/download/php5-5.2.5.leopard.release1.tar.gz
2. Expand
3. cp the php5 directory (as root) to /usr/local (old one was mv'd to php5_old)
4. edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf to add the line:
LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so
5. copy /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini-recommended to /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini
6. restart apache

This seems to work with Mediawiki, phpmyadmin, phpicalendar and some other things, but I have not tested it extensively yet. This seemed deceptively simple... anything specific I should be testing?

If I am reading the thread correctly, the module is essentially stable but the package installer requires major refactoring. Is that correct?

I'd like to try this no Leopard Server on some intel XServes here... anyone tried/had any problems with the server version of Leopard yet?

[mumunol]

Needing mssql + imap (with ssl) + gd support I successfully build my own pure PHP 5.2.5 i386 version,
1) installing properly brand new imap, libxml2, libiconv and freetds libs from sources
2) using (obviously depending on where were installed the previous libs and on on applications versions - for mysql at least) :

[mysty]

Hey Marc,

I'm back here after my first visit about 20 months ago - firstly may I echo the great THANKS for all your work on this.

Using a 1.67 GHz PPC G4 PowerBook, ugraded from Tiger to Leopard 10.5.1 I installed drupal, which was complaining about lack of GD Image support.

Your php5-5.2.5.leopard.release1.tar.gz fixed that and I think is working fine - although I don't have that GD table output in phpinfo()..

So, thanks again, and given you don't have a PPC I thought I would feedback the following output:

[mhoward]

Hey, Marc.

I've installed the 5.2.5.leopard.release1 on my Mac Pro running 10.5.1 and it's working great. Thanks! Just curious if PDFlib is still on your list for a future release.

Thanks again.

[liyanage]

PDFList is definitely on the list.

I am very busy wrapping up a client project and I should have more time again towards middle of December, then I'll get back to the PHP package.

The free PDFLib should be no problem, I am no sure if I can get the commercial PDFlib in a 4-way universal binary.

[mattmecham]