| Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other [message #180624 is a reply to message #180619] |
Thu, 07 March 2013 11:28   |
SwissCheese
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On 03/07/2013 01:53 AM, Cal Dershowitz wrote:
> On 03/05/2013 02:06 PM, Ben Morrow wrote:
>>
>> Quoth Cal Dershowitz <cal(at)example(dot)invalid>:
>>> [x-posted to clp.misc]
>> [...]
>>>
>>> This article has me convinced that I want perl and php able to deal with
>>> each other:
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9282?page=0,1
>>
>> Why on Earth would you want to do that? Seriously, I can't think of any
>> situation where mixing PHP and Perl is easier than just writing in Perl
>> in the first place.
>>
>> Note that the Perl in that article (or at least, the first page, which
>> was all I read) is pretty bad:
>>
>> - use of global filehandles, unnecessary since 2000,
>> - use of Thread.pm, deprecated since 2002,
>> - use of threads at all for such a trivial problem,
>> - using rindex and substr rather than pattern matching,
>> - using backticks instead of system(),
>> - using PHP to talk to a database, when Perl's DBI module is
>> considerably better than PHP's rather random database functions.
>>
>> I don't know PHP well enough to comment on it, but I wouldn't be
>> surprised if the PHP code was just as bad (for instance, I understand
>> PHP has a saner database interface these days; I don't know if it
>> existed in 2007, though).
>>
>>> so far so good, and then this thing which I've seen in the literature:
>>>
>>> using php_config 'php-config'
>>> Can't exec "php-config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL
>>> line 55.
>>> Failed to find the 'php-config' executable. Make sure you have PHP and
>>> PHP sources installed, and that 'php-config' is in PATH. at Makefile.PL
>>> line 55.
>>> ...
>>>
>>> bla bla bla do not pass Go. Right now I have a default installation.
>>>
>>> Simple question: What types of things can I get configured with
>>> php-config? envelope data available? ftp data?
>>
>> php-config is a program installed with php, which tells other programs
>> how php was installed. For instance, on my system
>>
>> ~% php-config --libs
>> -lcrypt -lcrypt -lpcre -lm -lxml2 -lz -liconv -lm -lcrypt -lcrypt
>> ~% php-config --includes
>> -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main
>> -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend
>> -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib
>> ~%
>>
>> and so on. If you've installed php properly (including any required
>> development packages, if you're using a package system), you should have
>> a php-config executable somewhere. Make sure it's in your PATH before
>> running Makefile.PL.
>
> Struggling.
>
> $ php-config --libs
> No command 'php-config' found, did you mean:
> Command 'pdp-config' from package 'pd-pdp' (universe)
> Command 'php-config5' from package 'php5-dev' (main)
> php-config: command not found
> $
Try php-config5 as php-config is a link to php-config5. Here they
both reside in /usr/bin. If you are missing php-config link (it appears
so) then create it.
--
Norman
Registered Linux user #461062
-Have you been to www.php.net yet?-
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