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Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other

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Quoth Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid>:
> [x-posted to clp.misc]
[...]
> 
> This article has me convinced that I want perl and php able to deal with 
> each other:
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9282?page=0,1

Why on Earth would you want to do that? Seriously, I can't think of any
situation where mixing PHP and Perl is easier than just writing in Perl
in the first place.

Note that the Perl in that article (or at least, the first page, which
was all I read) is pretty bad:

    - use of global filehandles, unnecessary since 2000,
    - use of Thread.pm, deprecated since 2002,
    - use of threads at all for such a trivial problem,
    - using rindex and substr rather than pattern matching,
    - using backticks instead of system(),
    - using PHP to talk to a database, when Perl's DBI module is
      considerably better than PHP's rather random database functions.

I don't know PHP well enough to comment on it, but I wouldn't be
surprised if the PHP code was just as bad (for instance, I understand
PHP has a saner database interface these days; I don't know if it
existed in 2007, though).

> so far so good, and then this thing which I've seen in the literature:
> 
> using php_config 'php-config'
> Can't exec "php-config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL line 55.
> Failed to find the 'php-config' executable. Make sure you have PHP and 
> PHP sources installed, and that 'php-config' is in PATH. at Makefile.PL 
> line 55.
> ...
> 
> bla bla bla do not pass Go.  Right now I have a default installation.
> 
> Simple question:  What types of things can I get configured with 
> php-config?  envelope data available?  ftp data?

php-config is a program installed with php, which tells other programs
how php was installed. For instance, on my system

    ~% php-config --libs
    -lcrypt -lcrypt -lpcre -lm -lxml2 -lz -liconv -lm -lcrypt -lcrypt
    ~% php-config --includes
    -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main
    -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend
    -I/usr/local/include/php/ext -I/usr/local/include/php/ext/date/lib
    ~%

and so on. If you've installed php properly (including any required
development packages, if you're using a package system), you should have
a php-config executable somewhere. Make sure it's in your PATH before
running Makefile.PL.

Ben

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randomly sorting files in php Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-02-28 17:49 -0800
  Re: randomly sorting files in php Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-02-28 23:45 -0500
    Re: randomly sorting files in php Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-02-28 22:23 -0800
      Re: randomly sorting files in php David Robley <me@home.invalid> - 2013-03-01 17:24 +1030
        Re: randomly sorting files in php Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-03 18:59 -0800
          getting perl and php to talk to each other,  was Re: randomly sorting files in php Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-05 01:19 -0800
            Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other,  was Re: randomly sorting   files in php "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-03-05 19:43 +0100
              Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other,  was Re: randomly sorting   files in php The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-05 19:20 +0000
            Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-03-05 22:06 +0000
              Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-06 00:20 +0100
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-03-05 23:59 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-06 01:01 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-05 20:08 -0500
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-06 22:37 -0800
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-03-07 06:57 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-07 00:52 -0800
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-07 08:17 -0500
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 03:41 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-14 11:14 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-14 08:06 -0400
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jürgen Exner <jurgenex@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-14 04:18 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2013-03-14 05:38 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-03-07 14:25 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-07 08:14 -0500
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-06 02:08 +0100
              Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-06 22:53 -0800
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-03-07 09:46 +0100
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other David Robley <me@home.invalid> - 2013-03-07 21:43 +1030
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-03-07 07:32 -0600
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other SwissCheese <swisscheese@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-03-07 06:28 -0500
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-03-07 14:33 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 02:16 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 03:28 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other SwissCheese <swisscheese@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-03-14 06:51 -0400
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-18 12:54 +0100
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other SwissCheese <swisscheese@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-03-18 20:23 -0400
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other alexd <troffasky@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-07 19:09 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Henry Law <news@lawshouse.org> - 2013-03-07 20:09 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 02:23 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-07 20:43 +0000
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Alastair Black <abqab.nemo@example.net> - 2013-03-07 14:47 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-03-07 23:11 +0100
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Alastair Black <abqab.nemo@example.net> - 2013-03-07 15:50 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-07 19:45 -0500
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 02:19 -0700
                Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-14 07:55 -0400
                where to put the binaries was Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 03:11 -0700
                Re: where to put the binaries was Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-14 11:12 +0000
                Re: where to put the binaries was Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-14 08:04 -0400
  Re: randomly sorting files in php Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-04 02:45 -0800
    Re: randomly sorting files in php Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2013-03-14 03:39 -0700

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