[Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos question

[Brent Fraser]

Dan, John,

   I agree; we need to test GM 2.2 with MS4W 3.0.  I'll have a look at the beta.

I see that PHP's dl() is deprecated (due to security and threading issues), but 
the doc doesn't say what the replacement is (use the PHP.ini?).  I think our 
plan would be to modify config.php to test if a module is loaded (as it does 
now) and just give a message if it isn't:

if(!extension_loaded('gd') && !extension_loaded('gd2')) {
	printf( 'Please ensure the following extension is loaded using 
php.ini:'.'php_gd2.'.PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX);
}

Unless there's a better way?

As for the php.dbase.dll, we could ask the MS4W people to include it...

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser

Dan Little wrote:
> I think we simply need to do more testing on the more bleeding edge 
> software.  In some regard, we have enough issues keeping up with browser 
> changes.  Moving past developer excuses,  I'm running OS/X 
> 10.5.something and a few variants of debian and I believe they all have 
> PHP 5.2, which is why there is probably some quirks when moving t o PHP 5.3.
> 
> Brian/Len/Brent, any help on your versions? I just really don't use 
> Windows for anything but running IE...
> 
> 
>     *From:* John Callahan <john.callahan at udel.edu>
>     *To:* geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>     *Sent:* Sun, January 3, 2010 8:31:42 AM
>     < b>Subject: [Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos
>     question
> 
>     I'm trying to setup GeoMoose but ran into a problem that I'm not
>     sure how to fix.  After several hours of modifying my environment,
>     here's where I'm at now:
> 
> 
>     Windows OS
> 
>     Apache 2.2.11
> 
>     PHP 5.3.1  (VC6 x86 Thread Safe (2009-Nov-19 10:20:08) from
>     http://windows.php.net/download/)
> 
>     MapServer 5.4.2 with PHP_MapScript from ms4w_3.0_beta7 2009-09-01
>     (http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=README_INSTALL_3.0.html)
> 
>     GeoMoose from moose2-trunk as downloaded from the tarball as of Jan
>     1.  ( I choose this over the 2.0.1 release because I liked some of
>     the changes in 2.2.)
> 
> 
>     Apparently, the php dl() function is now deprecated as of PHP 5.3. 
>     Even with the enable_dl set to 'On' in php.ini, it still throws an
>     error when trying to run the demo.  GeoMoose uses this function. 
>     How can I get around that?
> 
>     Also, I see GeoMoose uses php_dbase extension.  That dll is not in
>     the PHP or MS4W distributions I downloaded.  I did see a php_ogr dll
>     in MW4W though.  How can I get around this?
> 
> 
>     Lastly, I tried using php 5.2.8 and I WAS able to get the GeoMoose
>     demo mostly working.  However, some problems were occurring, likely
>     because I didn't have php_mapscript, or maybe a wrong version.  I
>     switched to php 5.3 because I couldn't find a php_mapscript for
>     MapServer 5.4.2 for p hp 5.2.x and because it was what MS4W
>     currently supports. 
> 
> 
>     Thanks for any help or thoughts.
> 
>     - John
> 
>     **************************************************
>     John Callahan, Geospatial Application Developer
>     Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware
>     URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu
>     **************************************************
> 
> 
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