php4 sessions not built by default?
K Anderson
freebsduser at comcast.net
Wed Oct 5 01:02:21 PDT 2005
----- 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
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