Problems with JSON and PHP

[Doug Hardie]

> On 1 February 2019, at 14:26, Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 1 February 2019, at 07:24, Mark Moellering <markmoellering at psyberation.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 10:17 AM <freebsd at boosten.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> test# more /usr/local/www/apache24/data/test.php
>>>>> <?php
>>>>> print "Hello world";
>>>>> 
>>>>> $myObj = (object) array();
>>>>> $myObj->name = "John";
>>>>> $myObj->age = 30;
>>>>> $myObj->city = "New York";
>>>>> 
>>>>> $myJSON = json_encode($myObj);
>>>>> 
>>>>> echo $myJSON;
>>>>> ?>
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I use php and my biggest complaint is the way it handles errors.  I
>>> think
>>>> what is happening is that your Object Definition has a syntax error but
>>> php
>>>> is complaining about the json_encode.
>>>> I believe (from the php.net docs) that it should be
>>>> 
>>>> $myObj = new stdClass();
>>>>> $myObj->name = "John";
>>>>> $myObj->age = 30;
>>>>> $myObj->city = "New York";
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Don’t believe that’s actually the issue, since the supplied test.php works
>>> like charm for me, either in my browser (through apache) or via command
>>> line.
>>> 
>>> If it were the declaration, the command line would fail as well.
> 
> The initial issue is with a very large package.  The example I provided was the simplest I could come up with that showed the issue.  I ran php -init and the output (partial) was:
> 
> Server API => Command Line Interface
> Virtual Directory Support => disabled
> Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /usr/local/etc
> Loaded Configuration File => /usr/local/etc/php.ini
> Scan this dir for additional .ini files => /usr/local/etc/php
> Additional .ini files parsed => /usr/local/etc/php/ext-18-session.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-curl.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-filter.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-gd.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-hash.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-json.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-mbstring.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-mcrypt.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-mysqli.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-openssl.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-xdebug.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-xml.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-zip.ini,
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-zlib.ini
> 
> running via the web server the info.php file gives (reformatted to look like the above):
> 
> Configuration File (php.ini) 
> Path	/usr/local/etc
> Loaded Configuration File	/usr/local/etc/php.ini
> Scan this dir for additional .ini files	/usr/local/etc/php
> Additional .ini files parsed	
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-18-session.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-curl.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-filter.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-gd.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-hash.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-json.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-mbstring.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-mcrypt.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-mysqli.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-openssl.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-xdebug.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-xml.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-zip.ini, 
> /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-zlib.ini
> 
> They both use the same ini file for json.  I don't see any differences between them.

I found the problem.  The following lines were missing in http.conf:

<FilesMatch "\.php$">
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.phps$">
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source
</FilesMatch>


Somehow during the installation process that file got replaced by a generic copy and those lines vanished.  The way I found that was by setting up yet another test server and it worked.  Then compared the various config files.