PHP-5.1.4

You can use PHP for server-side scripting, command-line scripting or client-side GUI applications. This book provides instructions for setting up PHP for server-side scripting as it is the most common form.

Note

PHP has many more configure options that will enable support for various things. You can use ./configure --help to see a full list of the available options. Also, use of the PHP web site is highly recommended, as their online docs are very good. An example of a configure command that utilizes many of the most common dependencies can be found at http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/files/BLFS/php_configure.txt.

If, for whatever reason, you don't have libxml2-2.6.26 installed, you need to add --disable-libxml to the configure command in the instructions below. Note that this will prevent the pear command from being built.

Install PHP by running the following commands:

sed -i 's/const char \*errpfx,/const DB_ENV *dbenv, & const/' \
    ext/dba/dba_db4.c &&
./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --with-apxs2 \
            --enable-force-cgi-redirect \
            --enable-discard-path \
            --with-config-file-path=/etc \
            --with-zlib \
            --enable-bcmath \
            --with-bz2 \
            --enable-calendar \
            --enable-dba \
            --enable-exif \
            --enable-ftp \
            --with-gettext \
            --enable-mbstring \
            --with-ncurses \
            --with-readline &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test. Three of the (over 1600) tests are known to fail: an iconv stream filter test (ext/iconv/tests/iconv_stream_filter.phpt) and two MBString function overload tests (ext/mbstring/tests/overload01.phpt and ext/mbstring/tests/overload02.phpt). Additionally, if you have the unixODBC package installed and linked into the build, you may see many failures related to it.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&
install -v -m644 php.ini-recommended /etc/php.ini &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/php-5.1.4 &&
install -v -m644 CODING_STANDARDS EXTENSIONS INSTALL NEWS \
                 README* TODO* UPGRADING php.gif \
    /usr/share/doc/php-5.1.4 &&
ln -v -s /usr/lib/php/doc/Archive_Tar/docs/Archive_Tar.txt \
    /usr/share/doc/php-5.1.4

The pre-built HTML documentation is packaged in two forms: a tarball containing many individual files, useful for quick loading into your browser, and one large individual file, which is useful for using the search utility of your browser. If you downloaded either, or both, of the documentation files, issue the following commands as the root user to install them (note these instructions assume English docs, modify the tarball names below if necessary).

For the “Single HTML” file:

install -v -m644 ../php_manual_en.html.gz \
    /usr/share/doc/php-5.1.4 &&
gunzip -v /usr/share/doc/php-5.1.4/php_manual_en.html.gz

For the “Many HTML files” tarball:

tar -xvf ../php_manual_en.tar.gz -C /usr/share/doc/php-5.1.4 &&
chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/doc/php-5.1.4/html