PHP Splittup issues (aka preg_replace missing)

[Florent Thoumie]

Joe St.Louis wrote:
> Howdy yall,
> 
> While doing some upgrading to my ports I noticed my php stop working
> properly. I am getting an error stating "undefined function: preg_replace"
> in numerous web based programs such as squirrelmail and postnuke.
> 
> After reading the UPGRADING file in the ports dir. I found that it is now
> split into the base and the others. What I need to find out is where
> preg_replace went to.
> 
> Php.net says they cant help me cause its supposed to be in the base package.
> 
> I have tried doing a portinstall -rf php4 with options in the Makefile such
> as --with-mysql and --with-session and --with-pear. But nothing seems to get
> that function back for me.
> 
> Here is a listing of the modules I currently have installed.
> 
> # pkg_info | grep php
> mod_php4-4.3.9,1    PHP Apache Module
> php4-4.3.9          PHP Scripting Language (Apache Module and CLI)
> php4-ctype-4.3.9    The ctype shared extension for php
> php4-extensions-1.0 A "meta-port" to install PHP extensions
> php4-gd-4.3.9       The gd shared extension for php
> php4-gettext-4.3.9  The gettext shared extension for php
> php4-imap-4.3.9     The imap shared extension for php
> php4-mbstring-4.3.9 The mbstring shared extension for php
> php4-mhash-4.3.9    The mhash shared extension for php
> php4-mysql-4.3.9    The mysql shared extension for php
> php4-openssl-4.3.9  The openssl shared extension for php
> php4-overload-4.3.9 The overload shared extension for php
> php4-pcre-4.3.9     The pcre shared extension for php
> php4-pear-4.3.9     PEAR framework for PHP
> php4-posix-4.3.9    The posix shared extension for php
> php4-session-4.3.9  The session shared extension for php
> php4-tokenizer-4.3.9 The tokenizer shared extension for php
> php4-xml-4.3.9      The xml shared extension for php
> php4-zlib-4.3.9     The zlib shared extension for php
> 
> also incase you are curious I am running 4.7.

	preg_replace() is provided by php4-pcre, so if it doesn't work
	at the moment, you may want to restart apache, to get php.ini
	re-read (extension are loaded this way IIRC).

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at xbsd.org