Re: [PHP] Compare PHP settings of two different servers
Dave M G wrote: Bob, Ben, David, Robert, Thank you all for responding. Just to recap, I'm trying to find out why I can write text into a PNG image on one server, but not on another. After much playing around, I have a list of the different configuration modules installed on the two servers. The lists below are lists of the modules *not* in common between them. From what I can see, none of the modules that the behaving server have that the misbehaving server doesn't has anything to do with fonts or images. So my suspicion is starting to be that maybe the problem is not in the PHP set up, but elsewhere. Before I move on to other possible solutions, I'd like to double check with more experienced eyes. Do any of the modules here affect text in PNG files? Misbehaving Server: '--enable-ftp' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-pdo' '--enable-soap' '--enable-zip' '--with-apxs2' '--with-curl' '--with-curl=/usr/local/lib' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/lib' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-mhash' '--with-openssl' '--with-pear' '--with-pdo-mysql' '--with-pdo-sqlite' '--with-sqlite' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-unixODBC=/usr' Behaving Server: '--disable-pdo' '--enable-libxml' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-imap=/opt/php_with_imap_client/' '--with-imap-ssl=/usr' '--with-libxml-dir=/opt/xml2/' '--with-mime-magic' '--with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' And, just to note, *both* servers have the following: * '--with-gd' * '--with-ttf' * '--enable-gd-native-ttf' These are the command line arguments used to enable/disable extensions. They don't guarantee that the extension is actually enabled though. Check the extensions in phpinfo() output. Each properly enabled extensions should have a little header. You are also trying to manipulate a PNG file... I believe that relies on libpng-dev and may require --with-png-dir=/usr/lib. I usually compile PHP myself so I'm not sure what the defaults are for various distros. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Compare PHP settings of two different servers
Bob, Ben, David, Robert, Thank you all for responding. Just to recap, I'm trying to find out why I can write text into a PNG image on one server, but not on another. After much playing around, I have a list of the different configuration modules installed on the two servers. The lists below are lists of the modules *not* in common between them. From what I can see, none of the modules that the behaving server have that the misbehaving server doesn't has anything to do with fonts or images. So my suspicion is starting to be that maybe the problem is not in the PHP set up, but elsewhere. Before I move on to other possible solutions, I'd like to double check with more experienced eyes. Do any of the modules here affect text in PNG files? Misbehaving Server: '--enable-ftp' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-pdo' '--enable-soap' '--enable-zip' '--with-apxs2' '--with-curl' '--with-curl=/usr/local/lib' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/lib' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-mhash' '--with-openssl' '--with-pear' '--with-pdo-mysql' '--with-pdo-sqlite' '--with-sqlite' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-unixODBC=/usr' Behaving Server: '--disable-pdo' '--enable-libxml' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-imap=/opt/php_with_imap_client/' '--with-imap-ssl=/usr' '--with-libxml-dir=/opt/xml2/' '--with-mime-magic' '--with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' And, just to note, *both* servers have the following: * '--with-gd' * '--with-ttf' * '--enable-gd-native-ttf' -- Dave M G http://tlug.jp/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Dave_M_G -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Compare PHP settings of two different servers
Bob, Thanks for replying. Another thought comes to mind. What text encoding are you using and what are the locale settings on those servers? I try to ensure UTF-8 is the only encoding used, as much as possible. Unfortunately, on the server that is misbehaving, it is the one where I don't have shell access, so I'm limited in how much I can poke and prod at its settings. -- Dave M G -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Compare PHP settings of two different servers
PHP Gurus, I'm currently having a problem with PHP writing text to a PNG image on one server. I have various web sites hosted on various servers, and on most of them, the script that generates the image is writing text properly. I have ensured that the same fonts are available on all the servers. My first guess was that the PHP environment on the misbehaving server was missing a GD module, like the TTF module or something. As far as I can tell by looking over the phpinfo() settings, the servers have all the same modules. But maybe I'm just not seeing it, because manually going over the settings is prone to human error. Is there a way I can take the output of phpinfo() from both servers and do a compare that will tell me what the differences are? Alternatively, if anyone has any suggestions on what might be a cause of not getting text onto an image, I'm open to any ideas. Thanks for any advice. -- Dave M G -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Compare PHP settings of two different servers
Dave M G wrote: PHP Gurus, I'm currently having a problem with PHP writing text to a PNG image on one server. I have various web sites hosted on various servers, and on most of them, the script that generates the image is writing text properly. I have ensured that the same fonts are available on all the servers. My first guess was that the PHP environment on the misbehaving server was missing a GD module, like the TTF module or something. As far as I can tell by looking over the phpinfo() settings, the servers have all the same modules. But maybe I'm just not seeing it, because manually going over the settings is prone to human error. Is there a way I can take the output of phpinfo() from both servers and do a compare that will tell me what the differences are? Alternatively, if anyone has any suggestions on what might be a cause of not getting text onto an image, I'm open to any ideas. Thanks for any advice. In linux you would use the diff command to compare two files. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Compare PHP settings of two different servers
2009/7/23 Dave M G mar...@autotelic.com: Is there a way I can take the output of phpinfo() from both servers and do a compare that will tell me what the differences are? Just diff the HTML. WinMerge, Kompare, etc etc. Or probably built into your favourite IDE. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Compare PHP settings of two different servers
David, Robert, Thank you for replying. Just diff the HTML. Unfortunately it is not that easy. Even if the same PHP modules are present, if they are written into the page in a different place, they show up as differences. The same goes for all the HTML tags and everything else, so what I end up with is a ton of text, no more streamlined or easy to analyze than the original output from phpinfo(). I'm hoping there's a way more targeted way of discerning what settings one server may have that another server might not. -- Dave M G -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Compare PHP settings of two different servers
From: Dave M G Thank you for replying. Just diff the HTML. Unfortunately it is not that easy. Even if the same PHP modules are present, if they are written into the page in a different place, they show up as differences. The same goes for all the HTML tags and everything else, so what I end up with is a ton of text, no more streamlined or easy to analyze than the original output from phpinfo(). I'm hoping there's a way more targeted way of discerning what settings one server may have that another server might not. Save each page to a text file. Sort the two text files. Run 'diff -iw' on the sorted files. Add additional flags to diff as needed. If you need more than that, you will probably have to write your own utility to handle it. You should also get copies of httpd.conf and php.ini from each server and compare them. They will affect how some of those modules behave. Bob McConnell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Compare PHP settings of two different servers
From: Dave M G I'm currently having a problem with PHP writing text to a PNG image on one server. I have various web sites hosted on various servers, and on most of them, the script that generates the image is writing text properly. I have ensured that the same fonts are available on all the servers. Another thought comes to mind. What text encoding are you using and what are the locale settings on those servers? Bob McConnell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Compare PHP settings of two different servers
Thank you for replying. Just diff the HTML. Unfortunately it is not that easy. Even if the same PHP modules are present, if they are written into the page in a different place, they show up as differences. The same goes for all the HTML tags and everything else, so what I end up with is a ton of text, no more streamlined or easy to analyze than the original output from phpinfo(). Do you have shell access on these servers, and are they running Linux or the like? If so, this seems like what you'd want: php -i | sort -u Ben -- Twitter: @bdunlap -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
