| Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other [message #180720 is a reply to message #180717] |
Thu, 14 March 2013 10:51   |
SwissCheese
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On 03/14/2013 06:28 AM, Cal Dershowitz wrote:
> On 03/07/2013 03:28 AM, SwissCheese wrote:
>> On 03/07/2013 01:53 AM, Cal Dershowitz wrote:
>>> On 03/05/2013 02:06 PM, Ben Morrow wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Quoth Cal Dershowitz <cal(at)example(dot)invalid>:
>>>> > [x-posted to clp.misc]
>>>> [...]
>>>> >
>>>> > This article has me convinced that I want perl and php able to deal
>>>> > with
>>>> > each other:
>>>> >
>>>> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9282?page=0,1
>>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> - 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:
>>>> >
>>>> > 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?
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>> $
>>
>> Try php-config5 as php-config is a link to php-config5. Here they
>> both reside in /usr/bin. If you are missing php-config link (it appears
>> so) then create it.
>>
>
> swiss,
>
> Can you elaborate?
The file 'php-config' is a pointer (hard/soft link) to 'php-config5'.
Running 'php-config' actually runs 'php-config5'. Run the command:
man ln
....to read up on how to use them. At worst you could just make a copy of
'php-config5' and rename it 'php-config' but I would have to say
creating the link is the proper thing to do.
--
Norman
Registered Linux user #461062
-Have you been to www.php.net yet?-
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