Getting MapServer working (PHP MapScript)

[Bill Binko]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Abe Gillespie wrote:

> Shall I build PHP or MapServer from source?

You should build MapServer from source.  Ideally, you should build CVS 
HEAD or the latest beta ( 4.6Beta3 ?).

If your PHP Header files are in /usr/include/php, then all you should have
to do is configure with --with-php=/usr and it should detect everything
for PHP.  Of course, depending on what else you're using (GDAL, OGR, WMS, 
WFS, etc, etc) there are other configure options you'll need.

If you don't build from source right now, perhaps a 4.6beta3 binary is 
available (?).

Unfortunately, you are probably in exactly the position I was in when I 
decided to tackle this bug: I had a binary PHP that I didn't want to mess 
with that was built with the PHP regex.  Older versions of Mapserver just 
don't play nicely that way.  That's what the fix is about: it allows you 
to build against a binary PHP (assuming you have the include files) and 
uses the right regex.

The good news for you is that there IS a fix now, and "all" you have to do 
is build Mapserver 4.6beta from source.

Bill