%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ PHP PHP is the PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. Primarily used in dynamic web sites, it allows for programming code to be directly embedded into the HTML markup. It is also useful as a general purpose scripting language. &lfs74_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &php-md5sum; Download size: &php-size; Estimated disk space required: &php-buildsize; Estimated build time: &php-time; Additional Downloads Pre-built documentation (optional): PHP Dependencies Recommended and Optional System Utilities and Libraries , , , , (deprecated alternative to ), OSSP mm, Net-SNMP, , re2c, XMLRPC-EPI, Dmalloc, and an (that provides a sendmail command) Optional Graphics Utilities and Libraries , , , , , , ClibPDF, GD, t1lib, and FDF Toolkit Optional Web Utilities , , mnoGoSearch, Hyperwave, Roxen WebServer, Caudium, and WDDX Optional Data Management Utilities and Libraries , , , , , , QDBM, cdb, Mini SQL, Empress, Birdstep, DBMaker, Adabas, FrontBase, and Monetra PHP also provides support for many commercial database tools such as Oracle, SAP and ODBC Router. Optional Security/Encryption Utilities and Libraries , , , libmcrypt, and mhash User Notes: You can use PHP for server-side scripting, command-line scripting or client-side GUI applications. This book provides instructions for setting up PHP for server-side scripting as it is the most common form. PHP has many more configure options that will enable support for various things. You can use ./configure --help to see a full list of the available options. Also, use of the PHP web site is highly recommended, as their online docs are very good. An example of a configure command that utilizes many of the most common dependencies can be found at . If, for whatever reason, you don't have installed, you need to add --disable-libxml to the configure command in the instructions below. Note that this will prevent the pear command from being built. Install PHP by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --with-apxs2 \ --with-config-file-path=/etc \ --with-zlib \ --enable-bcmath \ --with-bz2 \ --enable-calendar \ --enable-dba=shared \ --with-gdbm \ --with-gmp \ --enable-ftp \ --with-gettext \ --enable-mbstring \ --with-readline && make To test the results, issue: make test. A few tests may fail. Now, as the root user: make install && install -v -m644 php.ini-production /etc/php.ini && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/php-&php-version; && install -v -m644 CODING_STANDARDS EXTENSIONS INSTALL NEWS README* UPGRADING* php.gif \ /usr/share/doc/php-&php-version; && ln -v -sfn /usr/lib/php/doc/Archive_Tar/docs/Archive_Tar.txt \ /usr/share/doc/php-&php-version; && ln -v -sfn /usr/lib/php/doc/Structures_Graph/docs \ /usr/share/doc/php-&php-version; The pre-built HTML documentation is packaged in two forms: a tarball containing many individual files, useful for quick loading into your browser, and one large individual file, which is useful for using the search utility of your browser. If you downloaded either, or both, of the documentation files, issue the following commands as the root user to install them (note these instructions assume English docs, modify the tarball names below if necessary). For the Single HTML file: install -v -m644 ../php_manual_en.html.gz \ /usr/share/doc/php-&php-version; && gunzip -v /usr/share/doc/php-&php-version;/php_manual_en.html.gz For the Many HTML files tarball: tar -xvf ../php_manual_en.tar.gz \ -C /usr/share/doc/php-&php-version; --no-same-owner --with-apxs2: This parameter builds the Apache HTTPD 2.0 module. --with-config-file-path=/etc: This parameter makes PHP look for the php.ini configuration file in /etc. --with-zlib: This parameter adds support for Zlib compression. --enable-bcmath: Enables bc style precision math functions. --with-bz2: Adds support for Bzip2 compression functions. --enable-calendar: This parameter provides support for calendar conversion. --enable-dba=shared: This parameter enables support for database (dbm-style) abstraction layer functions. --enable-ftp: This parameter enables FTP functions. --with-gettext: Enables functions that use Gettext text translation. --enable-mbstring: This parameter enables multibyte string support. --with-readline: This parameter enables command line Readline support. --disable-libxml: This option allows building PHP without libxml2 installed. /etc/php.ini and /etc/pear.conf /etc/php.ini /etc/pear.conf The file used as the default /etc/php.ini configuration file is recommended by the PHP development team. This file modifies the default behavior of PHP. If no /etc/php.ini is used, all configuration settings fall to the defaults. You should review the comments in this file and ensure the changes are acceptable in your particular environment. You may have noticed the following from the output of the make install command: You may want to add: /usr/lib/php to your php.ini include_path If desired, add the entry using the following command as the root user: sed -i 's@php/includes"@&\ninclude_path = ".:/usr/lib/php"@' \ /etc/php.ini To enable PHP support in the Apache web server, a new LoadModule (which should be handled automatically by the make install command) and AddType directives must be added to the httpd.conf file: LoadModule php5_module lib/apache/libphp5.so AddType application/x-httpd-php .php Additionally, it can be useful to add an entry for index.php to the DirectoryIndex directive of the httpd.conf file. Lastly, adding a line to setup the .phps extension to show highlighted PHP source may be desirable: AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps You'll need to restart the Apache web server after making any modifications to the httpd.conf file. Installed Programs Installed Library Installed Directories pear, peardev, pecl, phar, phar.phar, php, php-cgi, php-config, and phpize libphp5.so Apache module /usr/include/php, /usr/lib/php and /usr/share/doc/php-&php-version; Short Descriptions php is a command line interface that enables you to parse and execute PHP code. php pear is the PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) package manager. pear