| Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other [message #180717 is a reply to message #180624] |
Thu, 14 March 2013 10:28   |
Cal Dershowitz
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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?
--
Cal
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