| Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other [message #180619 is a reply to message #180599] |
Thu, 07 March 2013 06:53   |
Cal Dershowitz
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On 03/05/2013 02:06 PM, Ben Morrow wrote:
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> Quoth Cal Dershowitz <cal(at)example(dot)invalid>:
>> [x-posted to clp.misc]
> [...]
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>> This article has me convinced that I want perl and php able to deal with
>> each other:
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>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9282?page=0,1
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> Why on Earth would you want to do that? Seriously, I can't think of any
> situation where mixing PHP and Perl is easier than just writing in Perl
> in the first place.
>
> Note that the Perl in that article (or at least, the first page, which
> was all I read) is pretty bad:
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> - use of global filehandles, unnecessary since 2000,
> - use of Thread.pm, deprecated since 2002,
> - use of threads at all for such a trivial problem,
> - using rindex and substr rather than pattern matching,
> - using backticks instead of system(),
> - using PHP to talk to a database, when Perl's DBI module is
> considerably better than PHP's rather random database functions.
>
> I don't know PHP well enough to comment on it, but I wouldn't be
> surprised if the PHP code was just as bad (for instance, I understand
> PHP has a saner database interface these days; I don't know if it
> existed in 2007, though).
>
>> so far so good, and then this thing which I've seen in the literature:
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>> using php_config 'php-config'
>> Can't exec "php-config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL line 55.
>> Failed to find the 'php-config' executable. Make sure you have PHP and
>> PHP sources installed, and that 'php-config' is in PATH. at Makefile.PL
>> line 55.
>> ...
>>
>> bla bla bla do not pass Go. Right now I have a default installation.
>>
>> Simple question: What types of things can I get configured with
>> php-config? envelope data available? ftp data?
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> php-config is a program installed with php, which tells other programs
> how php was installed. For instance, on my system
>
> ~% php-config --libs
> -lcrypt -lcrypt -lpcre -lm -lxml2 -lz -liconv -lm -lcrypt -lcrypt
> ~% php-config --includes
> -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main
> -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend
> -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib
> ~%
>
> and so on. If you've installed php properly (including any required
> development packages, if you're using a package system), you should have
> a php-config executable somewhere. Make sure it's in your PATH before
> running Makefile.PL.
Struggling.
$ php-config --libs
No command 'php-config' found, did you mean:
Command 'pdp-config' from package 'pd-pdp' (universe)
Command 'php-config5' from package 'php5-dev' (main)
php-config: command not found
$
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