[mapserver-users] PHP-MapScript with PHP 5.3 fastcgi warning

[Jeff McKenna]

I believe I reported this issue to the MS4W users...but I agree it's 
good to mention on this email list as well.

-jeff

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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
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On 10-09-02 4:41 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
> So, I'm *finally* getting around to updating my OS X PHP package to 5.3 and found an important change that affects MapServer mapscripts (and I didn't see it mentioned in the MapScript docs).  I'm others have run into this already and figured it out (sorry if this is old news), but documentation is good.
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> dl() is disabled in all but CGI, CLI and embed builds of PHP.  That means PHP will throw an error, not a warning, when you try to dl("php_mapscript.so").  You *must* load extensions from the php.ini when using PHP as DSO (those that don't have a choice), or as fastcgi, or any of the obscure PHP SAPIs.
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> I guess the best way to handle this is to test if php_mapscript is already loaded before trying.  And checking for the existence of the dl() function just in case, if it isn't loaded.
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> This stumped me for a while because my *fastcgi* PHP build didn't work.  Then I realized that they really mean "CGI", and not also fastcgi.
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