On Solaris 9 I have installed php 4.4.4 from the freesunsoftware site
and it works fine. Now I need to install a specific extension to enable
ftp support. I did this in about 5 mins on a suse box last week with
yast, whereby it copies ftp.so to the extension directory then edits
your php.ini accordingly. Unforunately, I have had not such luck on the
sun server. I can find nowhere on the web that seems to supply the .so
extensions, seriously guys Ive been searching for about an hour! And I
dont think compiling it is going to work because compiling php
extensions on solaris sounds a bit hairy and Im not even sure I could
find the source (of ftp.so).

If anyone's had any experience with this I'd like to hear. Cheers.

hopkins <hopkins81@gmail.com> wrote:
> And I
> dont think compiling it is going to work because compiling php
> extensions on solaris sounds a bit hairy

why?

> and Im not even sure I could
> find the source (of ftp.so).

It's part of the plain php distribution.

> If anyone's had any experience with this I'd like to hear.

Get the source, run configure with the options you need and compile
it. It's a no-brainer. PHP compiles without any problems on Solaris.


Martin

--
"For the Snark's a peculiar creature, that won't
Be caught in a commonplace way.
Do all that you know, and try all that you don't;
Not a chance must be wasted to-day!"

> > And I dont think compiling it is going to work because compiling php
> > extensions on solaris sounds a bit hairy
>
> why?

When I say compiling it, did you know I meant compiling the actual
ftp.so php extension? In order to do that you have to follow these
guidelines http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.phpize.php
Which I feared would not work.

> It's part of the plain php distribution.
> Get the source, run configure with the options you need and compile
> it. It's a no-brainer. PHP compiles without any problems on Solaris.

Do you mean recompile the whole of PHP and set a compiler type option
--with-ftp?

I certainly dont mind giving that a try but just thought if I could
find the dynix extension ftp.so for solaris that would be all I need as
I have not compiler something as big as PHP before and I fear I would
might not be able to also find/compile all of it's dependencies

Thanks again.

hopkins <hopkins81@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > And I dont think compiling it is going to work because compiling php
>> > extensions on solaris sounds a bit hairy
>>
>> why?
>
> When I say compiling it, did you know I meant compiling the actual
> ftp.so php extension?

Yes.

> In order to do that you have to follow these
> guidelines http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.phpize.php
> Which I feared would not work.

Again: Why do you fear it wouldn't work?

>> It's part of the plain php distribution.
>> Get the source, run configure with the options you need and compile
>> it. It's a no-brainer. PHP compiles without any problems on Solaris.
>
> Do you mean recompile the whole of PHP and set a compiler type option
> --with-ftp?

Not a compiler option. Neither gcc nor the Sun Compiler have such
an option. I was talking about passing the option to the configure-
script of PHP.
Just run ./configure --help in the PHP directory to get an idea
of the different options you can set.

> I certainly dont mind giving that a try but just thought if I could
> find the dynix extension ftp.so for solaris

Shared objects for Dynix won't run under Solaris. Dynix is a
completely differnet kind of Unix.

> that would be all I need as
> I have not compiler something as big as PHP before and I fear I would
> might not be able to also find/compile all of it's dependencies

Don't make it more complicated than it is. Grab the Source,
unpack it, run ./configure --whatever-options-you-need and
install it. *If* there are some dependencies, try running configure
with the appropriate option to exclude that software package.


Martin

--
"For the Snark's a peculiar creature, that won't
Be caught in a commonplace way.
Do all that you know, and try all that you don't;
Not a chance must be wasted to-day!"

> > I certainly dont mind giving that a try but just thought if I could
> > find the dynix extension ftp.so for solaris
>
> Shared objects for Dynix won't run under Solaris. Dynix is a
> completely differnet kind of Unix.

Sorry, that was meant to say "find the dynamic extension ftp.so for
solaris"!

> Don't make it more complicated than it is. Grab the Source,
> unpack it, run ./configure --whatever-options-you-need and
> install it. *If* there are some dependencies, try running configure
> with the appropriate option to exclude that software package.

I will download the php source and give it a try, this is going to be
interesting...

Well, well, well! I managed to compile PHP with the ftp module all by
myself, but then found it was not compatible with the pre-compiled
apache2 that I had installed from the freesunsoftware site. So I just
went right ahead and compiled that too! All working now, told you I
could do it!

cheers.