[Chameleon] PHP5 and Chameleon

[bartvde at xs4all.nl]

Hi Jacob,

I think the difference between php.exe and php-cgi.exe is that php.exe is
supposed to be used from the command-line only. It used to be one
executable, but I think they separated the two. See also install.txt:

   |-php-cgi.exe          -- CGI executable
   |
   |-php-win.exe          -- executes scripts without an opened command
prompt
   |
   |-php.exe              -- CLI executable - ONLY for command line scripting

I did not get any error messages with the ROI sample, the only problem I
had was with the sample application finding chameleon.php.

I changed my include_path in php.ini:

include_path = ".;/ms4w/apps/chameleon/htdocs"

And used in the phtml file:

include( "chameleon.php" );

For the whole module thing I had to do the following:

For PHP4 (with PHP5 this is not necessary because they changed the
directory structures):
copy everything from dlls and sapi to the php root directory.

The following config in httpd.conf:

##
## PHP 4 Module config
##
#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 .php3 .phtml .php
#LoadModule php4_module "C:/ms4w/Apache/php/php4apache2.dll"
#PHPIniDir "/ms4w/Apache/php/"

##
## PHP 5 Module config
##
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 .php3 .phtml .php
LoadModule php5_module "C:/ms4w/Apache/php5/php5apache2.dll"
PHPIniDir "/ms4w/Apache/php5/"

I did move some of the dll's mapscript depends on, into the system32
folder, but I don't know if this is necessary. I guess not, but I was just
lazy ...

Best regards,
Bart

> Bart,
>
> I just gave it a quick try. I'm running apache 2.52 on Windows XP. I
> normally use PHP4.3.8 as a CGI, with php_mapscript_44. I changed to php
> 5.0.3 CGI, with php_mapscript_45. I did not measure things as you did, but
> I
> noticed a slight drop in performance (roughly 25%). I haven't tried it as
> a
> module (never got that to work).
>
> I got a few errors when using php5, in my Apache error log:
>
>
> starting with:
> [Wed Mar 02 09:12:55 2005] [error] [client 172.21.40.93] PHP Notice:
> Trying
> to get property of non-object in
> C:\\chameleon\\epra\\htdocs\\widgets\\Widget.php on line 386, referer:
> http://auper1pc487/chameleonepra/index.phtml
>
> then one of these lines for every layer turned on:
> [Wed Mar 02 09:12:56 2005] [error] [client 172.21.40.93] msDrawMap():
> Layer
> 9 (Localities), 0.203s\r, referer:
> http://auper1pc487/chameleonepra/index.phtml
>
> ending with:
> [Wed Mar 02 09:12:56 2005] [error] [client 172.21.40.93] msDrawMap():
> Drawing Label Cache, 0.000s\r, referer:
> http://auper1pc487/chameleonepra/index.phtml
>
>
> What is the difference in PHP5 between php.exe and php-cgi.exe? It didn't
> work using normal php.exe.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jacob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org
> [mailto:chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of
> bartvde at xs4all.nl
> Sent: 1 March 2005 23:23
> To: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
> Subject: [Chameleon] PHP5 and Chameleon
>
> Hi list,
>
> today I have done a little testing using the sample_roi application on
> Windows using Mapserver/Mapscript current CVS version.
>
> First of all, I tested with PHP 4.3.10 as a CGI:
> I got 31/32 hits in a minute.
>
> After that I tested with PHP 4.3.10 as a module
> 34 hits in a minute.
>
> I had expected a higher increase in performance.
>
> Then I compiled php mapscript for PHP5, and switched my MS4W environment
> to use PHP 5 as an Apache 2 module. The results here quite astonish me:
> only 13 hits in a minute
>
> Did anybody else use PHP5? And experience this drop in performance?
>
> Any thoughts appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
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