php4 to php5 means exit session functions?
Bram Kuijper
a.l.w.kuijper at rug.nl
Tue Jul 31 17:18:19 UTC 2007
OK, I finally found at what had been going wrong:
In my php.ini file there is the variable "extension_dir". This was still
pointing at the old extension dir, located at
/usr/local/lib/php/2002something
after I changed it to
/usr/local/lib/php/20060613
everything worked fine.
thanks,
Bram
Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> Bram Kuijper wrote:
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>> 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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