Newbie Extension Frustration

drCaligari

I installed WAMP and I'm happy because MYSQL/PHPMYADMIN/PHP are all working. Now I'm trying to enable an extension ->php_sockets.dll

steps taken to setup:
1) copy and rename php.ini-recommended to php.ini
2) make sure php.ini is pointed to in windows Env vars
a) under system vars, added new PHPRC and gave absolute path to php.ini
b) rebooted computer
3) pointed to the default extensions folder C:\wamp\php\ext in php.ini
extension_dir = "C:\wamp\php\ext"
4) uncommented extension extension=php_sockets.dll
5) save and restarted Apache

I'm getting this error and I'm loosing my mind

Fatal error: Call to undefined function socket_create() in c:\webs\test\chat.php5 on line 11

I know there are probably a million extensions errors post and I've read half of them. I thought I was following the install instruction to the letter.

any help would be appreciated. Thanks

yinrunning

That really sounds like more of an apache issue than a php issue. Not really sure, tho.

Try this:

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/index.phtml/fid/753

And definitely Google-search "undefined function socket_create()", because the search i did turned up alot of socket errors for that function in apps other than php.

Soothsayer

I found a couple of things ...

This page suggests that "safe mode" being set in php.ini will return an error for php_sockets.dll ... http://uk.php.net/dl

and this quote from the install instructions hints that maybe some other .dll's might be required as well as php_sockets.dll ...

* Some of the extensions need extra DLLs to work. Couple of them can
be found in the distribution package, in the C:\php\dlls\ folder
in PHP 4 or in the main folder in PHP 5, but some, for example
Oracle (php_oci8.dll) require DLLs which are not bundled with the
distribution package. If you are installing PHP 4, copy the
bundled DLLs from C:\php\dlls folder to the main C:\php folder.
Don't forget to include C:\php in the system PATH (this process is
explained in a separate FAQ entry).

see what you can do with those 😉

drCaligari

Thanks guys, I think it's a global extensions problem im having. I tried unlocking the Curl extensions and called

$curl = curl_init();

getting this error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in c:\webs\test\index.php5 on line 2

drCaligari

got it! had names php.ini php.ini.ini

always something stupid, thanks for the replies