HI As we all know, PHP 5.2.4 has been integrated within SXDE build 73 onwards. This integration is based on previously approved ARC case : PSARC/2007/552 and PSARC/2007/168. Some very useful PHP extensions like CGI / FastCGI, LDAP, Kerberos, MySQL, Pear etc are not included within our current integration. So, I am hoping that we can file additional ARC case to track these new extensions. So, here are the additional extensions that I am considering to add support for. Please take a look at the below list and let us know your thoughts.
- inifile -> Ability to read PHP INI file programmatically - cgi / fastcgi -> Support PHP to run in CGI or FastCI environment. For example, this could allow Apache Worker MPM to execute PHP in FastCGI environment. - dbase -> Adds support for leveraging the bundled DBase library - flatfile -> Adds support for different file based databases - ndb / cdb -> Abstraction layer for leveraging the bundled database libraries. - SQLite -> Adds support for SQLite database. SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine. - mysql - MySQL support . This can be added as soon as MySQL support gets integrated within SXDE - xdebug -> Adds debugging support through IDE like Netbeans - pdo / pdo-sqlite -> Enable PHP data objects support. Also enables SQLite database to be accessed as PHP objects. - pear -> Allows PHP programmers to dynamically download and install 3rd party PHP extensions that are available from either pecl.php.net or pear.php.net - ldap / kerberos -> Authentication support for php programmers. Uses Sun's LDAP and Kerberbos libraries here. - pspell -> Dictionary support for programmers - snmp - Add snmp support for PHP programmers Here are the other popular extensions that we cannot still add support at this time because of missing 3rd party library dependency - unixODBC - Need unixODBC libraries - gdbm / qdbm -> Need external native database library that is not bundled within PHP. - ncurses -> Need ncurses library in /usr/sfw - readline -> Need readline library in /usr/gnu - imap -> Need IMAP library in /usr/sfw - gmp -> Needs GNU MP library in /usr/gnu - mssql[=DIR] Includes support for Microsoft SQL Server. Unfortunately, this requires FreeTDS libraries to be installed in /usr/sfw - unixODBC/ iODBC -> support for ODBC Driver Manager. Again, this requires appropriate native libraries to be installed within Solars. If you happen to know any popular extension that is not captured in the above list, please please let us know. This information could be useful in determining what other extensions to include so that PHP developers can comfortably develop and deploy PHP based web applications on Solaris. thanks sriram
