php7 and pecl-pdflib fails

[Andy Wodfer]

Anyone?

How can we have PDF support under PHP7? Is there another way I can get this
working without using the broken php7-extension PDF?

Thanks,
Andy

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Andy Wodfer <wodfer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sean and the rest of the FreeBSD list,
>
> Today I stumbled upon this issue again. I needed to install php7 with the
> pdf extension to be able to create PDF files from a form generator. Still,
> I see the pecl-pdflib hasn't been updated for a long time and not
> compatible with php7.
>
> Any chance you or someone else could look into this? I think it makes no
> sense to have a list of build options for php70-extensions where some are
> not compatible with php7. :-) Also the ability to create PDF files through
> php is for several of our sites very important. I'm not the only one I
> think who needs this functionality.
>
> Would appreciate any feedback.
>
> Btw: Is there any way around this for me? Downgrading php is unfortunately
> not an option on this server. Are people using some other solution for this?
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Andy Wodfer <wodfer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sean,
>>
>> I skipped it in the install here, so I don't really need it for now, but
>> there are probably others who do so if you're up for it - go for it! :-)
>>
>> Best,
>> Andy
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Sean DuBois <sean at siobud.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 04:21:54PM +0200, Andy Wodfer wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> > I recently upgraded to 10.3 REL on a test server. I'm trying to
>>> install all
>>> > the latest versions for Apache, mysql, php and so on.
>>> >
>>> > php7 is installed and works perfectly with apache. However, I couldn't
>>> > install the extension pecl-pdflib from the php7 extensions port, it
>>> fails
>>> > with the message doesn't supprt php7.
>>> >
>>> > ===>   phpMyAdmin-4.6.0 depends on file:
>>> > /usr/local/lib/php/20151012/openssl.so - found
>>> > ===>   Returning to build of phpMyAdmin-4.6.0
>>> > ===>   phpMyAdmin-4.6.0 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20151012/pd
>>> f.so
>>> > - not found
>>> > ===>  pecl-pdflib-3.0.4 cannot be installed: doesn't work with
>>> lang/php70
>>> > port (doesn't support PHP 70).
>>> > *** Error code 1
>>> >
>>> > Stop.
>>> > make[2]: stopped in /usr/ports/print/pecl-pdflib
>>> > *** Error code 1
>>> >
>>> > Stop.
>>> > make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin
>>> > *** Error code 1
>>> >
>>> > Stop.
>>> > make: stopped in /usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin
>>> >
>>> > Does this mean I can't install phpmyadmin for now or is there a way
>>> around
>>> > this? pecl-pdflib hasn't been updated for a couple of years it seems..
>>> >
>>> > Anyone?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Andy
>>>
>>> Hi Andy!
>>>
>>> I do php-src/extension development[0] and would love to port pecl-pdflib
>>> to PHP 7 if you need it/can confirm everything works.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> [0] http://pecl.php.net/user/seander
>>>
>>
>>
>