Extensions not working with PHP install.

dmphotography

Hello,
I am encountering an issue when installing PHP and trying to use with Apache HTTP server 2.2.11.

I am doing everything from a fresh install. I've installed Apache first, then I downloaded PHP 5.2.8 windows installer and configured it to install all of the libraries with it. I checked the php.ini file and I see that it doesn't have any of them commented out, so I start my Apache server. I check the error log and there's a list of extensions that will not load. Here's the list of them that don't work:

php_fdf.dll
php_interbase.dll
php_mcrypt.dll
php_mhash.dll
php_mysql.dll
php_mysqli.dll
php_oci8.dll
php_pdo_firebird.dll
php_pdo_mysql.dll
php_pdo_oci.dll
php_pdo_oci8.dll
php_pdo_pgsql.dll
php_pdo_sqlite_external.dll
php_pgsql.dll
php_pspell.dll
php_sybase_ct.dll

The error looks like this:

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\\Apache2.2\\PHP\\ext\\php_pgsql.dll' - The specified module could not be found.\r\n in Unknown on line 0

I verified the extension path and all of the files are indeed there. I searched these forums and saw where someone had a similar issue some time back and resolved it by downloading the zip version, so I tried that as well. I deleted the ext folder, then replaced it with the one from the zip file and it still doesn't work.

There was the same issue with the previous version of PHP with some of the extensions, but this time there's more. I figured it's an issue with the dynamic library file versions, but how do I fix this? And why do they make a PHP version with non-working library files included?

Thank you for your help!

dmphotography

Update

Ok, so I managed to solve the riddle for the most part, but I'm still missing some of the required files. Here's what I've done:

I found a document included in the PHP 5.2.8 install zip folder called snapshot.txt. I opened it and saw it included a list called Dependency Information.

After looking at it, I realized it listed the dependent libraries for each module and noticed most of those were in the PHP root folder. So out of curiousity, I copied all of the dependent library files in the php root folder to my C:/Windows/system32/ folder and then restarted Apache. I checked the error log and most of the errors were gone.

The ones that were still there were the ones that I don't know where to find the dependent dynamic library files for. They are as follows:

Module: php_oci8.dll (It doesn't list the dependencies for these modules?)
php_pdo_oci.dll
php_pdo_oci8.dll
php_sybase_ct.dll

Module: php_pdo_sqlite_external.dll

sqlite3.dll (I don't know where to find this.)

I can probably do without these modules, but I would like to know how to solve this if anyone can help.

Thanks.

dmphotography

I wish i could edit my posts . . . .

I got to noticing that even though this fixes the errors mentioned, there is one other issue the above fix creates found in the Apache error log that I'm not sure of it's relevance or how much difference it makes. Nor do I know how to fix it, but here's what it says:

[Fri Jan 23 21:39:58 2009] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3032
Cannot find module (IP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (IF-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (TCP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (UDP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMPv2-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMPv2-SMI): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (UCD-SNMP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (UCD-DEMO-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-TARGET-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (UCD-DLMOD-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-MPD-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMPv2-TM): At line 0 in (none)
[Fri Jan 23 21:39:58 2009] [notice] Child 3032: Child process is running