php4 to php5 means exit session functions?

[Matthew Seaman]

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Bram Kuijper wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to update php4 to php5 on my FreeBSD 6.1-server, by using
> the following 'manual':
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-July/127059.html
> 
> However, now I get error messages like " *Fatal error*: Call to
> undefined function session_start()*".
> This is strange, because I _did_ also update php5-session and
> php5-extensions. I did restart apache, so what else can be wrong? This
> is the configure command I used:
> 
> *'./configure' '--enable-versioning' '--with-layout=GNU'
> '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/php' '--disable-all'
> '--enable-libxml' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr/local' '--enable-reflection'
> '--program-prefix=' '--enable-fastcgi'
> '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/sbin/apxs' '--with-regex=php'
> '--with-zend-vm=CALL' '--prefix=/usr/local'
> *
> anyone a clue how to get the session functionality back? thanks.

If you're correctly following the instructions I wrote in the
message you quoted, then you would never run configure directly.
The ports system does it all for you.

Do you have a php-session port installed? Does
/usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini contain the line:

    extension=session.so

What do you get if you run this command?

    % php -r 'phpinfo();' | grep -i session

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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