php4 sessions not built by default?

On Oct 5, 2005, at 12:26 AM, K Anderson wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Garrett Cooper" <youshi10u.washington.edu>
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 11:48 PM
> Subject: php4 sessions not built by default?
>
>
>
>>     Just trying to access some session variables
via the PHP4 and   
>> for
>> some odd reason it doesn't appear as if the
function exists. Is   
>> this not
>> built in PHP4 by default? And if so, how may I
remedy the  issue?
>>     Thanks,
>> -Garrett
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>
> Take a gander at http://u
s3.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php
>
> I found this...
> Installation
> Session support is enabled in PHP by default. If you
would not like  
> to build
> your PHP with session support, you should specify the
--disable- 
> session
> option to configure. To use shared memory allocation
(mm) for session
> storage configure PHP --with-mm[=DIR] .
>
> Might want to check out some of the examples on the php
web site to  
> see if
> they work.
>
> Also, I looked in /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions and
saw it was a  
> meta-port
> for ctype, mysql, overload, pcre, posix, session
(ooooh!),  
> tokenizer, xml
> and zlib (I wish the portmakers would put the old php
installation
> functionality back in place because, IMHO, it is a pain
in the arse  
> to have
> to go to each port separately and add it in as far as
PHP is  
> concerned. I
> liked the old functionality of php4 install when it
asked what  
> modules were
> to be included.) I know this is a smidge off topic but
how in the  
> world do
> you portupgrade a "meta-port"?
>
>
> Hope that helps you.
>
> ~Mr. Anderson

     I finally found a webpage describing that *right*
before you  
sent the message to me, compiled everything, but still
session  
handling fails because it claims that the functions cannot
be found.  
Any clues?
     I really do appreciate the help!
-Garrett
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