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Thread: Re: PHP/YAZ and Win32
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| Re: PHP/YAZ and Win32 |
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2007-01-24 14:49:54 |
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JPL,
There is no indication of a specific reason to use PHP 5.1.4, is there?
You only stated:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to download and test PHP/YAZ for Windows.
>
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The main PECL site itself (http://pecl.php.net/) has much good stuff, but it
is LOUSY in structure, and I must be dumber than I thought, because I cannot
locate the binaries package there for using along with PHP set-ups. The
built-in site-search and package-search just does me absolutely NO good. (At
one point earlier in time, maybe a year or so ago, I seemed to have had no
trouble.)
What you really want is a sub-set of the main site called PECL4Win:
http://pecl4win.php.net/
Then in the left menu, click on the "Branches" to take you to:
http://pecl4win.php.net/branch.php
Here you will find links to either individual extensions (dlls) or to
complete extension packages in zip format, corresponding to popularly
versions of PHP (including 5.1.4), for Win32. You only want to download the
complete ("All") package, because otherwise you soon would discover that
dlls from various packages will become mismatched and will DEFINITELY lead
to incompatibilities and failures. If Apache cannot load the dll, it
usually responds with a "module not found" or "procecure not found" error,
even though you know that the dll is where it is supposed to be; this is one
of the most common errors that Win32 users experience.
Be aware that if you browse around on the PECL4Win site and are taken to the
main site, then it is nearly impossible to find your way back to the
PECL4Win location of interest (a negative usability issue with that site).
As of this writing,
http://us3.php.net/
no longer appears to provide PHP 5.1.4 for Windows (by merely browsing or
searching); instead, it openly maintains only versions of 4x and 5.2, even
in its so-called "snapshot archives" (http://snaps.php.net/).
You could go there and perform a search for 'pecl-5.1.4-Win32.zip' (or key
fragments of this file name) in the 'all php.net sites' drop-down filter,
but even this is flawed in results. Since I already have located both the
5.1.4 version of PHP and PECL for Win32, you can go directly to:
http://us3.php.net/get/pecl-5.1.4-Win32.zip/from/a/mirror
http://us3.php.net/get/php-5.1.4-Win32.zip/from/a/mirror
The PHP 5.1.4 binary also is available for download at site "Planet Mirror":
http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/php/distributions
It contains some older and most recent versions of PHP for Win32 including
5.1.4 and 5.2.0.
Whichever you choose, I personally prefer to use Apache 2.x.x, rather than
IIS, since it is much more amenable to tweaking and configurable for PHP. I
therefore would stay away from using 'php-5.1.4-installer.exe', unless you
want the wizard assistance in setting up for IIS. Instead I would simple
buckle-up and read the included 'install.txt' THOROUGHLY and play around
with settings as recommended. In setting up for Apache, I would
particularly read up on environment settings and alternate file locations
for placing, say, 'php.ini'. You would do well to perform some Web searches
on this topic to get opinions of others who have successfully set-up and
managed their Win32 installations of PHP.
Since you do not mention the intent to upgrade from an earlier version of
PHP, I would consider PHP 5.2.0 a stable current release available, along
with matching PECL binary package. Stable release 5.2.0 has significant
number of bug fixes over the earlier release.
This is NOT, however, a seamless set-up, expecially if you use Apache,
because some known issues have surfaced with respect to PHP Apache 2.2.4,
available in No-SSL only for Win32 from:
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
An alternate version (compiled from MS Visual Studio) is available at:
http://www.apachelounge.com/download/
This latter version comes WITH SSL capability and requires the Visual C++
2005 Redistributable Package, also available from the same site (you would
need to see instructions for obtaining this package inside the readme
included with Apachelounge Apache 2.2.4). This version is known to work
with PHP 5.2.0 on WinXP (Win32), along with the PECL 5.2.0 extension
package, but again you will have to muster up a GREAT deal of patience to
get all the locations, extensions, and configuration files, php.ini and
httpd.conf (including how to set up script alias directories and virtual
hosts), and the Windows path environment. You will also need a bouch of
other dependency stuff too numerous to state here (libxml, iconv, etc.)
depending on whether or not you choose to enable some extensions. Some
dependencies are not readily determined, and you will have to conjure up
even more patience to search the Web for leads to some updated zips for some
of these (which are not always included in the PECL4Win).
If you just MUST use PHP 5.1.4, then you'll likely have to settle for a
well-proven earlier but recent release of Apache for Windows v2.0.59,
available from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi.
I might be wrong, but you do seem to be proficient in running Apache for
Windows (maybe it's a perception from my "electric crystal ball"). If not,
then this is NOT for the faint of heart.
Hope that you can glean some good out of this.
Ricky Smith
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lamon Jean-Pierre" mediatheque.ch>
To: "Discussion on the YAZ Z39.50 toolkit" lists.indexdata.dk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:41 AM
Subject: RE: [Yazlist] PHP/YAZ and Win32
See http://lists.indexdata.dk/pipermail/yazlist/2007-January/001863.html
Unfortunately, we don't have resources to maintain php_yaz.dll binaries
ourselves. It is depending on the PHP version.
[JPL:] Thank you. I'm trying now to install yaz on PHP 5.1.4. I launch
the command : "pcl install yaz"
The yaz-1.0.8.tgz is downloaded from pcl.php.net, building the 5 sources
files, but it fails with the message " the DSP yaz.dsp does not exist".
Thank you for your help
JP
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| Re: PHP/YAZ and Win32 |
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2007-01-24 15:41:23 |
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| JPL,
After all that discussion in my previous response (below), I forgot to
mention that the php_yaz.dll extension is included in both
'pecl-5.1.4-Win32.zip' and 'pecl-5.2.0-Win32.zip', so for whichever version
of PHP you do decide to use, be certain to use only the one php_yaz.dll
included with that respective PECL4Win package corresponding to the version
of PHP.
That having been said, it is advisable to place the entire pecl extension
package contents in the recommended directory structure within your php
directory.
Ricky Smith
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick "Ricky" Douglas Smith" comcast.net>
To: "Discussion on the YAZ Z39.50 toolkit" lists.indexdata.dk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Yazlist] PHP/YAZ and Win32
> JPL,
>
> There is no indication of a specific reason to use PHP 5.1.4, is there?
>
> You only stated:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to download and test PHP/YAZ for Windows.
> >
> ___________
>
> The main PECL site itself (http://pecl.php.net/) has much good stuff, but
it
> is LOUSY in structure, and I must be dumber than I thought, because I
cannot
> locate the binaries package there for using along with PHP set-ups. The
> built-in site-search and package-search just does me absolutely NO good.
(At
> one point earlier in time, maybe a year or so ago, I seemed to have had no
> trouble.)
>
> What you really want is a sub-set of the main site called PECL4Win:
> http://pecl4win.php.net/
> Then in the left menu, click on the "Branches" to take you to:
> http://pecl4win.php.net/branch.php
> Here you will find links to either individual extensions (dlls) or to
> complete extension packages in zip format, corresponding to popularly
> versions of PHP (including 5.1.4), for Win32. You only want to download
the
> complete ("All") package, because otherwise you soon would discover that
> dlls from various packages will become mismatched and will DEFINITELY lead
> to incompatibilities and failures. If Apache cannot load the dll, it
> usually responds with a "module not found" or "procecure not found" error,
> even though you know that the dll is where it is supposed to be; this is
one
> of the most common errors that Win32 users experience.
>
> Be aware that if you browse around on the PECL4Win site and are taken to
the
> main site, then it is nearly impossible to find your way back to the
> PECL4Win location of interest (a negative usability issue with that site).
>
> As of this writing,
> http://us3.php.net/
> no longer appears to provide PHP 5.1.4 for Windows (by merely browsing or
> searching); instead, it openly maintains only versions of 4x and 5.2, even
> in its so-called "snapshot archives" (http://snaps.php.net/).
>
> You could go there and perform a search for 'pecl-5.1.4-Win32.zip' (or key
> fragments of this file name) in the 'all php.net sites' drop-down filter,
> but even this is flawed in results. Since I already have located both the
> 5.1.4 version of PHP and PECL for Win32, you can go directly to:
> http://us3.php.net/get/pecl-5.1.4-Win32.zip/from/a/mirror
> http://us3.php.net/get/php-5.1.4-Win32.zip/from/a/mirror
>
> The PHP 5.1.4 binary also is available for download at site "Planet
Mirror":
> http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/php/distributions
> It contains some older and most recent versions of PHP for Win32 including
> 5.1.4 and 5.2.0.
>
> Whichever you choose, I personally prefer to use Apache 2.x.x, rather than
> IIS, since it is much more amenable to tweaking and configurable for PHP.
I
> therefore would stay away from using 'php-5.1.4-installer.exe', unless you
> want the wizard assistance in setting up for IIS. Instead I would simple
> buckle-up and read the included 'install.txt' THOROUGHLY and play around
> with settings as recommended. In setting up for Apache, I would
> particularly read up on environment settings and alternate file locations
> for placing, say, 'php.ini'. You would do well to perform some Web
searches
> on this topic to get opinions of others who have successfully set-up and
> managed their Win32 installations of PHP.
>
> Since you do not mention the intent to upgrade from an earlier version of
> PHP, I would consider PHP 5.2.0 a stable current release available, along
> with matching PECL binary package. Stable release 5.2.0 has significant
> number of bug fixes over the earlier release.
>
> This is NOT, however, a seamless set-up, expecially if you use Apache,
> because some known issues have surfaced with respect to PHP Apache 2.2.4,
> available in No-SSL only for Win32 from:
> http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
> An alternate version (compiled from MS Visual Studio) is available at:
> http://www.apachelounge.com/download/
> This latter version comes WITH SSL capability and requires the Visual C++
> 2005 Redistributable Package, also available from the same site (you would
> need to see instructions for obtaining this package inside the readme
> included with Apachelounge Apache 2.2.4). This version is known to work
> with PHP 5.2.0 on WinXP (Win32), along with the PECL 5.2.0 extension
> package, but again you will have to muster up a GREAT deal of patience to
> get all the locations, extensions, and configuration files, php.ini and
> httpd.conf (including how to set up script alias directories and virtual
> hosts), and the Windows path environment. You will also need a bouch of
> other dependency stuff too numerous to state here (libxml, iconv, etc.)
> depending on whether or not you choose to enable some extensions. Some
> dependencies are not readily determined, and you will have to conjure up
> even more patience to search the Web for leads to some updated zips for
some
> of these (which are not always included in the PECL4Win).
>
> If you just MUST use PHP 5.1.4, then you'll likely have to settle for a
> well-proven earlier but recent release of Apache for Windows v2.0.59,
> available from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi.
>
> I might be wrong, but you do seem to be proficient in running Apache for
> Windows (maybe it's a perception from my "electric crystal ball"). If
not,
> then this is NOT for the faint of heart.
>
> Hope that you can glean some good out of this.
>
> Ricky Smith
>
> _____________________________________________________
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lamon Jean-Pierre" mediatheque.ch>
> To: "Discussion on the YAZ Z39.50 toolkit" lists.indexdata.dk>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:41 AM
> Subject: RE: [Yazlist] PHP/YAZ and Win32
>
>
>
> See http://lists.indexdata.dk/pipermail/yazlist/2007-January/001863.html
>
> Unfortunately, we don't have resources to maintain php_yaz.dll binaries
> ourselves. It is depending on the PHP version.
>
> [JPL:] Thank you. I'm trying now to install yaz on PHP 5.1.4. I launch
> the command : "pcl install yaz"
>
> The yaz-1.0.8.tgz is downloaded from pcl.php.net, building the 5 sources
> files, but it fails with the message " the DSP yaz.dsp does not exist".
>
> Thank you for your help
> JP
>
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