php4 sessions not built by default?

[K Anderson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Cooper" <youshi10 at u.washington.edu>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: php4 sessions not built by default?


>
> On Oct 5, 2005, at 12:36 AM, Sam Nilsson wrote:
>
>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>
>>>     Just trying to access some session variables via the PHP4 and  for 
>>> some odd reason it doesn't appear as if the function exists.  Is this 
>>> not built in PHP4 by default? And if so, how may I remedy  the issue?
>>>     Thanks,
>>> -Garrett
>>>
>>
>> Hi Garrett,
>>
>> Yeah, I think you are right that it doesn't install session support  by 
>> default. I remember running into this myself. The solution is to  install 
>> the lang/php4-extensions port if you don't already have it  installed. 
>> That port will give you options to install all kinds of  php extensions 
>> that you might need including session support.
>>
>> If you already have the lang/php4-extensions port installed and you  need 
>> a different way to install session support, install the www/ php4-session 
>> port directly.
>>
>> - Sam
>>
>
>     Still no dice. Do I need to restart any services or something?
Did you shutdown apache then restart it?
Also, for giggles find your extensions.ini file (might be found in 
/usr/local/etc/php) and see if you have a line that says 
extension=session.so. If not then add it. Shut down apache and then restart 
it.

Hope that helps.

~Mr. Anderson