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

Mon Jan 4 11:33:17 EST 2010

I really haven't tested MS4W 3.0 beta 7 with GM yet.  I tried when it was in beta 2 and ran into some of these same problems.

I would suggest if there are specific things we need added to MS4W to make things work with GM 2.2 we submit a bug.  Kind of like the Mapbender project did in this bug http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2086.  Then if it is not to hard for them to add they will do it.

Is the dbase .dll the only thing?  I think when GM 2.2 comes out we need to explain the quirks of the dl() function.

Brian Fischer, CFM  GIS Project Manager
Houston Engineering, Inc.
Phone: W: 763.493.4522 / M: 763.229.2734

From: Dan Little [mailto:danlittle at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:05 AM
To: John Callahan
Cc: GeoMOOSE Users List
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos question

We will probably not delay 2.2 in order to be PHP 5.3 ready.  I would expect that if we're going to focus on PHP 5.3/MS4W 3.0 then we're going to need to rollout a 2.2.(1/2/5) that subsumes it as a "bug fix."

From: John Callahan <john.callahan at udel.edu>
To: Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
Cc: Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com>; geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Mon, January 4, 2010 10:01:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos question

Thanks Dan/Brent.

Would you say that GeoMoose 2.2 would be tested/modified to work with MapServer 5.4.x and PHP 5.3 (and therefore MS4W 3.0 from a Windows perspective)?   Actually, GM 2.2 could probably work for all MapServer 5.x versions....

And that GeoMoose 2.0.x works with MapServer 5.2.x and PHP 5.2 (and therefore MS4W 2.3.x)?

I wouldn't mind using GM 2.2 with PHP 5.2 (at least temporarily) if I can find a php_mapscript dll based on PHP 5.2 that works with MapServer 5.4.2.

- John

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com<mailto:bfraser at geoanalytic.com>> wrote:
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<mailto:john.callahan at udel.edu>>
   *To:* geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
   *Sent:* Sun, January 3, 2010 8:31:42 AM
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   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

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   Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware
   URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu
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