DroboPorts php-5.3.6 - XML-parts missing?

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Hi

I have the most recent versions of php and lighthttpd installed from Ricardo’s DroboPorts.

The following simple code in a test page prints an error:

[php]

<?php $xml_parser = xml_parser_create(""); print $xml_parser; ?>

[/php]

“Fatal error: Call to undefined function xml_parser_create() in /mnt/DroboFS/Shares/DroboApps/lighttpd/www/tester.php on line 2”

From the build notes on droboports, and phpinfo() below, it seems like this should work… Any ideas?

[code]’–enable-xml=shared’
‘–enable-libxml’
‘–with-libxml-dir=/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/DroboApps/phpdeps’
‘–with-libexpat-dir=/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/DroboApps/phpdeps’

libxml
libXML support active
libXML Compiled Version 2.7.8
libXML Loaded Version 20708
libXML streams enabled
[/code]

Only thing I can think of is that there is no phpdeps directory in my DropoApps after installing php. Something I missed? Should it be there?

Best regards.
tusse.

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Phpdeps is a folder I used to compile all the dependencies. It should not be needed since PHP is compiled statically. Well, at least that was the plan. What does the php log file say?

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Perhaps there is something else wrong here. MySQL just crapped out, too. php.log should be in php/var/log? There’s nothing there.

$ pwd /mnt/DroboFS/Shares/DroboApps/php/var/log $ ls -l $ touch php.log touch: php.log: Permission denied $ whoami admin $

It’s starting to smell just like last weekend – http://www.drobospace.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=8561 – that thing started when I rebooted the drobo because I had problems with mysql.

tusse.

4

I’m not on my PC right now, but I think you need to enable it first on php.ini. Which reminds me that you have to explictly add the xml extension to the /mnt/DroboFS/Shares/DroboApps/php/etc/php.ini file. Something like this:

error_log=/mnt/DroboFS/Shares/DroboApps/php/var/log/error.log
extension=xml.so
date.timezone="your_timezone_here"
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Well, this is strange.

error_log and extension vars were already in the php.ini file, however I had to change the value for extension to xml.so (was json.so) and i added date.timezone=“Europe/Oslo”.

Now everything works as expected, no errors for xml_parser_create() !

tusse.

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You can add as many ‘extension’ lines as you need. The json line is needed for rtorrent.

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Ah, OK, I get it now. I was so focused on getting a log file, I thought for a moment that I the extension line was controlling the logging. Added json.so back, and put in session.so, and now my app works.

Thanks!

tusse.