HELP on installing extensions

[pulles]

Hi :

Could someone enlight me on how to install extensions using phpize on Mandrake 10, so far no luck.(linux newbie)

Thanks.

[Merve]

Why not just install the extensions manually?

[pulles]

Hi Merve:
What do you mean by manually?
I used phpize, ./configure and God knows what?

If i run php -m i get an error complaining about an undefined function or so I can post the error but I will have to switch on the linux box.
Any help really apreciated !!!🙁

The php extension in question or dynamic module is expat of course, I have been trying to enable xml support in my php installation(4.3.4) with expat -1.95.7.

Cheers.

[piersk]

Just cos I'm feelin picky, I've condensed all three posts into one..

Carry on

[Merve]

Try:

dl('php_xmlrpc.so');

[pulles]

Thanks for your reaction:

Yes, that could work too, but actually I got it solved easily and painlessly.
I just grabbed the php-xml rpm form some spaniard site and runned. After 2 miniutes everything was worked like a charm, though I noticed the expat version installed was the previous one to the one I tried to configure.

I phpize expat 1.95.7 and the one now working is 1.95.6. But still i would like to figure out why it didn´t work with phpize and ./configuret the way it suppose to. Perhaps I miss understood the way phpize works.

For the record yet: when I did try to install the extension using phpize it did run the function and addedd the module to /src/php/extensions ( it could be another path, since I don´t remember) but it didn´t install the 52_xml.ini in /etc/php when i added the 52_xml.ini manually and run afterwards php -m it spelled an error warining me : unable to load module....undeclared function....
And that what´s driving me crazy until I figure out to look for some already compiled rpm, wich I did and solved the anoying dilema.

That´s all folks;

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