fribidi on windows binary installation

aalmos

Hi,
I'm trying to use the fribidi functionality from the binary installation of php 4.3.2 on windows. When I try to call the fribidi function I get undefined error. I can see that the fribidi dll exists under the dll directory of the installation dir, but somehow it is not working. Does anyone knows how to solve this?
Thanks,
a

Mordecai

Do you have this extension enabled? It'd be something like this in PHP.ini:
extension=fribidi.dll
You'll have to add it, since FriBiDi isn't packaged with PHP.

aalmos

When I try to put it as extension in the php.ini file, I get an error message saying that it's not a valid php extension.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
a

piersk

According to this, you need to download and install the FriBiDi package, which you can do so from here. Since it is on SourceForge, that suggests to me that it's free 🙂

If you've already done this, then I'm not quite sure what FriBiDi is, so I'm gonna have to research this further.

aalmos

The win32 binary installation of php already includes fribidi.dll under the dlls folder so I figured it should work...

piersk

I think that would just allow PHP to use it, but you probably still have to download the software behind it.

Think of it like MySQL: you can connect to MySQL without downloading anything, but you need a server to connect to.

aalmos

your'e probably right, thanks for the clarification!