Building PHP With pdflib Support - [SOLVED]

WhimpyPeon · Last edited by WhimpyPeon on Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:20 pm; edited 1 time in total

I have a Intranet web server that I recently upgraded php on. It had been a while and I can't say what the previous version of php was. The current version is dev-php/php-4.4.0. With the upgrade I lost pdf creation capability through pdflib. I checked the phpinfo and found that php was built without pdflib even though I have pdflib in my use flags. It appears as though building --with-pdflib is no longer an option.

Output of emerge -pv php is:

WhimpyPeon · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:17 pm Post subject: Additional Information

OK I did some reading on the PHP web site and it looks like after version 4.3.9 you have to use PECL-pdflib.

I emerged PECL-pdflib and it looks like the extension pdflib.so was installed in:
/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/

Apache cannot load the extension and gives the following error:

Redeeman · l33t Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 958 Location: Portugal

i know this isnt what you want, but may i suggest using fpdf in the future, its written in php, and its more free than pdflib afaik

WhimpyPeon · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:02 pm Post subject:

Yes, I have been looking at fpdf and it actually looks much easier than pdflib. I will probably start using that in the future, but I have about a week or two of coding some complex forms into pdflib, and I really don't have the time to redo them right now. So if possible I would like to fix the pdflib issue first and then I can convert over at my pace.

llongi · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 11:57 am Post subject:

The module loading error happens becuse in the old PHP ebuilds, php was compiled without ZTS, but mod_php with, thus there is no real consistency for modules: they may work on one PHP SAPI but not on the others.
Please upgrade to dev-lang/php as your PHP provider, these are the new PHP ebuilds that support this correctly. Also unmerge PECL-pdflib, and after having emerged dev-lang/php, use dev-php4/pecl-pdflib or dev-php5/pecl-pdflib, depending on wich version of PHP you emerged.
More informations on the upgrade can be found here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-377385.html
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WhimpyPeon · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject:

I am trying to stick with stable and emerge shows dev-lang/php as being unstable. I don't want to sound like a selfish crybaby, but isn't this why we stay with stable? Things should work. Ughhh.

llongi · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject:

WhimpyPeon · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:23 pm Post subject:

Once the new php/apache setup is marked stable I will switch over to that. For now I have started converting my forms over to fpdf. It wasn't the solution I was looking for, but it will do. fpdf seems a little more "open source" than pdflib anyhow. The conversion to fpdf is going pretty fast IMHO it is much easier to work with than pdflib.

Thanks for all the help.