fatal error, phppgadmin

[bignate]

I have been trying without success to install phppgadmin today.

When I navigate to http://localhost/phppgadmin/

I get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_name() in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/phppgadmin/libraries/lib.inc.php on line 76

I installed it with Portage/webapp-config (w/o vhosts in my USE flags), I tried both unmasked and masked versions. I am using a masked version of mod_php (I need it for work).

dev-php/mod_php-5.0.4
dev-db/phppgadmin-3.5.3
dev-db/postgresql-8.0.1-r

I have looked trough the config file and googled, but can't seem to put my finger on the problem. I was hoping someone might have an idea.

TIA
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[tukachinchila]

The 'session_name()' function is a part of PHP4 and PHP5, so the problem is with your installation of PHP5. As a workaround (since you don't really need to define the session name), try commenting out (using //, not #) line 76 of /var/www/localhost/htdocs/phppgadmin/libraries/lib.inc.php, and line 10 of /var/www/localhost/htdocs/phppgadmin/logout.php.

The function 'session_start()' which is on line 77 and line 11 in the above files respectively will set the session name to the PHP default instead of setting it to 'PPA_ID'. It should work in theory anyway, but you may get a similar error with the session_start() function. If that's the case, then phppgadmin will probably not work with PHP5 currently.

[bignate]

Ok, interesting. Thanks. I tried that and it did in fact error out with the session_start() func. However, my coworker is successfully running it on gentoo with PHP5 (though it's php-5.0.3, which may or may not matter). Hmm, well back to digging. Thanks for the heads up, I may be able to get somewhere here.
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[bignate]

I am not sure how, but after changing a million things and recompiling mod_php, postgres and phppgadmin a few dozen times it somehow came up. I wish I could narrow it down better since it might happen to someone else, but I really can not remember all the different things I have done, nor which one of them ultimately worked. Thanks for the help tukachinchila.
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[Filo_kg]

The solution is very simple - you must emerge mod_php with "+session" USE flag. Please chande the topic to [SOLVED].

[bignate]

uh...if it were that simple I would have posted that as a fix. I didn't mark it [SOLVED] because I don't recall how I did it, as my earlier post states. The first thing I tried was adding session to my USE flags, and it didn't work. Please try not to presume what others have done.
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[Shienarier]

Perhaps the application in question simply doesn't support PHP5 yet.

[opensas]

I'm also trying to use phppgadmin with php 5.0.5-r4

I've followed the guide at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Apache_Modules_mod_php to install apache and php 5 (I don't have mod_php emerged, I emerged dev-lang/php)

I stumbled with the same session problems, until I added
=dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r4 -berkdb -gdbm session
to /etc/portage/package.use

Now I'm getting the following warning:

[opensas]

Well, I tried with phpPgAdmin 4.0 (PHP 5.0.5-pl3-gentoo), and it works fine (but it's not even in thr portage tree yet)

I had to edit /var/lib/postgresql/data/pg_hba.conf and set the local access back to trust mode.

Saludos

Sas

PS: I've learnt in these forums that upgading to the latest version IS NOT a solution. So I hope someone can solve this thing...

[doodb]

scuse me for my bad english (i'm french)
USE="session apache2 cgi cli -threads dba gd" emerge --ask dev-lang/php
if you use apache 1.x replace apache2 by apache
i used this and it works whith postgresql and phppgadmin (php5)
good luck
see you...
dood