[Chameleon] Installing Chameleon on Linux

[Paul Spencer]

Robin,

PHP can be built with its extensions as either loadable modules or 
compiled directly into the php executable.  On windows, PHP is always 
distributed with loadable modules, but on Linux it is normal to compile 
extensions directly into the final executable.

Chameleon requires two modules, dbase and gd.  You can enable these when 
building php by adding --with-dbase and --with-gd (I think ... check 
./configure --help).

Cheers

Paul

Jason Fournier wrote:
> Robin,
> 
> Others with greater Linux experience may have a better idea of what's 
> going on but I dug around a little bit and it seems that there are two 
> files in the common directory that load php_dbase.dll exclusively (ie, 
> no check for .so):
> 
> htdocs/common/mlt/create_dbf.php
> htdocs/common/phpwms/manage_servers.php
> 
> I suspect the first one would be more evident in all the sample apps as 
> it's associated with translation.  You could try placing the following 
> code at the top of that file:
> 
>     if (!extension_loaded("dbase"))
>     {
>         if (PHP_OS == "WINNT" || PHP_OS == "WIN32")
>         {
>             dl("php_dbase.dll");
>         }
>         else
>         {
>             dl("php_dbase.so");
>         }
>     }
> 
> in place of:
> 
> if (!extension_loaded("dbase")) dl("php_dbase.dll");
> 
> This is untested since I am a Windows person.  If this solves the issue 
> then please file a bug (or let the list know and I'll file a bug).
> 
> BTW, does phpinfo() reveal that dbase is available to you?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> 
> Robin Brown wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>>
>> We are trying to install Chameleon version 1.99 beta 2 on a linux 
>> server and are having
>> trouble getting the samples to work.
>>
>>
>>> It appears when I try to run any of the chameleon samples that it is
>>> looking for:
>>>
>>>  /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/php_dbase.dll
>>>
>>> but the only object in the directory is the php_mapscript.so shared
>>> object.  If the .dll extension means what I think it does, then the
>>> chameleon sample is looking for a windows type object, a dll rather
>>> than a shared object (.so) file.  
>>
>>
>>
>> does anyone know how to fix this problem?
>>
>> Is there anything special we need to do to get Chameleon working on 
>> Linux?  As far as I
>> know, all the instructions available for installation have been 
>> followed.  Any help
>> would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Robin
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> 

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