[Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos question
Dan Little
danlittle at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 5 14:10:46 EST 2010
Yeah, this is a bit of a problem as we need to be able to create DBase files but the old module is no longer supported and the new one not release.
Have I ever mentioned to this list how much I absolutely love PHP and/or it's "mostly free" model?
----- Original Message ----
> From: Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
> To: John Callahan <john.callahan at udel.edu>
> Cc: GeoMOOSE Users List <geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net>; Brian Fischer <bfischer at houstoneng.com>
> Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 1:05:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] getting started, running the demos question
>
>
> And of some interest, http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49222, says:
>
> "dbase is unmaintained and moved to PECL though its yet to have a release
> there."
>
> So until a PHP 5.3 compatible version of php_dbase.dll shows up there, it looks
> like some of GM v2.2 PHP functions (select, mailing labels) will not work with
> MS4w 3.0.
>
>
>
>
> Brent Fraser wrote:
> > I didn't edit the config.php. All of the GM required PHP dlls are loaded via
> > the php.ini file, except for php_dbase.dll. And since I don't have that one
> on
> > my test system, I'm confused why the print.php didn't crash and burn. I only
> > tested the print.php which doesn't actually use php_dbase.dll; perhaps the
> dl()
> > function is tolerant of files not being available (until a function is used).
> >
> > Brent
> >
> > John Callahan wrote:
> >> That's good to hear. Thanks Brent. Did you also edit the config.php
> >> to get rid of the dl() calls? or the php_dbase.dll dependence (which I
> >> couldn't find in the ms4w 3.0 beta distribution)?
> >>
> >> - John
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Brent Fraser
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> GM 2.2 (from SVN) running on MS4W 3.0 beta works ok after I edited the
> >> mapbook.xml (for things we need to change anyway for the 2.2 Beta
> >> release).
> >> Creation of PDF,HTML, and jpg documents for Printing using PHP seems
> >> to work ok too.
> >>
> >> Brent
> >>
> >>
> >> Brent Fraser wrote:
> >> > I just installed MS4W on a clean XP virtual machine. Apache would
> >> not start; I
> >> > had to install the VC++ 2008 redist package
> >> >
> >>
> (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4D-074B9F2BC1BF&displaylang=en
> >>
> )
> >> >
> >> > Then it started and PHP reported:
> >> >
> >> > MapScript
> >> > MapServer Version MapServer version 5.4.2 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG
> >> OUTPUT=JPEG
> >> > OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ
> >> SUPPORTS=AGG
> >> > SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=FRIBIDI SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
> >> > SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT
> >> SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER
> >> > SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER SUPPORTS=FASTCGI SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS
> >> > SUPPORTS=RGBA_PNG INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL
> >> INPUT=SHAPEFILE
> >> >
> >> > PHP MapScript Version ($Revision: 9099 $ $Date: 2009-06-09
> >> 00:39:18 -0300 (Tue,
> >> > 09 Jun 2009) $)
> >> >
> >> > so I'm encouraged. I'll try GM next...
> >> >
> >> > Brent
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Brian Fischer wrote:
> >> > > 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
> >> >
> >> > > *To:* Brent Fraser
> >> >
> >> > > *Cc:* Dan Little
> >> >;
> >> > > 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
> >> > >
> >> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> > > >>
> >> > > *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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