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PHP modules
« on: July 08, 2012, 03:03:29 PM »
I'm curious why some tutorials offer more PHP extensions while some offer fewer? Why is that?
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Re: PHP modules
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2012, 09:31:34 PM »
Laziness...
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Re: PHP modules
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2012, 06:40:10 PM »
As I see it, some tutorials tell people to install a bunch of useless PHP extensions...
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Re: PHP modules
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2012, 08:12:42 PM »
If that's how you see it then there it is...
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Re: PHP modules
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2012, 07:00:16 AM »
I was looking for an answer from advanced users, as I'm a beginner...
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Re: PHP modules
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2012, 07:21:13 AM »
Quote from: xnux on July 11, 2012, 06:40:10 PM
As I see it, some tutorials tell people to install a bunch of useless PHP extensions...

Because they aren't useless, under most circumstances. What "useless PHP extensions" are you referring to?
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Re: PHP modules
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2012, 08:08:40 AM »
memcache, ming, ps, xsl, tidy, sqlite, snmp, recode, intl, pear, mcrypt for example. Memcache might be useful if the tutorial also spoke about how to configure it, I believe it's even disabled by default.
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Re: PHP modules
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2012, 04:47:49 AM »
I'm usually utilising PHP from a dedicated web server running CentOS/Ubuntu Server/Debian or some such.  I tend to do a vanilla PHP install, then add PHP modules as the need arises, using the distribution's package manager of choice.

Here are the packages installed on one of my development servers, by way of example:

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php.x86_64
php-channel-ezc.noarch
php-channel-phpunit.noarch
php-channel-symfony.noarch
php-cli.x86_64
php-common.x86_64
php-devel.x86_64
php-ezc-Base.noarch
php-ezc-ConsoleTools.noarch
php-gd.x86_64
php-ldap.x86_64
php-mbstring.x86_64
php-mcrypt.x86_64
php-mysql.x86_64
php-odbc.x86_64
php-pdo.x86_64
php-pear.noarch
php-pecl-xdebug.x86_64
php-phpunit-File-Iterator.noarch
php-phpunit-PHP-CodeCoverage.noarch
php-phpunit-PHP-Invoker.noarch
php-phpunit-PHP-Timer.noarch
php-phpunit-PHP-TokenStream.noarch
php-phpunit-PHPUnit.noarch
php-phpunit-PHPUnit-MockObject.noarch
php-phpunit-Text-Template.noarch
php-soap.x86_64
php-symfony-YAML.noarch
php-xml.x86_64
php-xmlrpc.x86_64
Meanwhile, one of my application servers (singe web app running) has a more modest list:


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php52.x86_64
php52-bcmath.x86_64
php52-cli.x86_64
php52-common.x86_64
php52-devel.x86_64
php52-gd.x86_64
php52-ldap.x86_64
php52-mbstring.x86_64
php52-mcrypt.x86_64
php52-mysql.x86_64
php52-pdo.x86_64
php52-pear.noarch
php52-pecl-apc.x86_64
php52-pecl-memcache.x86_64
php52-soap.x86_64
php52-xml.x86_64
php52-xmlrpc.x86_64
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