FreeBSD 6.1-R-p10 and PHP 5.2.0

[Andy Fawcett]

On Friday 17 November 2006 18:19, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> On Friday 17 November 2006 17:03, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 01:22:13PM +0200, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> > > This is actually a known problem, documented on the PHP site.
> > >
> > > My nasty solution to deal with this is to have a "good" copy of
> > > extensions.ini saved, and I just copy it over after each update.
> > > I only need to modify it after adding or removing extensions.
> >
> > Can you provide the documentation to this known problem?
> >
> > Also, ale@, is this issue/known problem handled decently when
> > installing a php5 extension via ports?  (It doesn't sound like it).
> > It almost sounds like we need some additional framework to give
> > each extension its own priority, thus when extensions.ini is
> > edited, sorting the extensions loaded by their priority.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.recode.php
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php
>
> for a couple of examples, see the "warning" sections. There are
> probably others too, I haven't dug much further.

See also http://www.pingle.org/2006/10/18/php-crashes-extensions/

A.

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