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  php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-02-17 00:00 +0100
    Re: php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server [resolved] Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-02-18 15:10 +0100
      Re: php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server [resolved] Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-02-19 15:20 +0100
        Re: php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server [resolved] Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-02-19 23:30 +0100

#231776 — php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server

I'm running Buster on my local server which, among other things, I use 
for developing web sites before copying them onto a public host. I've 
recently been getting into a little php coding because there seem to a 
lot of sample code out there for things I want to do. Usually they work 
right away when I try running them after having installed 
libapache2-mod-php.

Right now I'm trying to get a script working that is actually fairly 
small and seems straightforward. It displays a form that allows you to 
send an e-mail with an attachment. I actually have some similar scripts 
working locally that do pretty much the same thing, but I'm trying to 
get this one to work because the host I use for one site that needs this 
type of form has broken the script I had been using (I also didn't like 
it because it seemed overly complicated and under-featured).

This script use the Pear libraries to handle the heavy lifting, which 
seems like a reasonable design decision. I installed the php-pear 
package and also php-mail-mime. Unfortunately, the script failed to 
work. It was uploading the file but failing to send the e-mail.

I was able to find the line that was failing but it puzzles me. The line is

         $message = new Mail_mime();

which should be working. I ran the (frequently recommended) php-info 
page (<?php  phpinfo();) and it shows a lot of information but nothing 
about mime. I'd expect that is something php handles though.

I got the script to send an e-mail by removing all the mime parts and 
just using the php mail() function. However that's not really useful. I 
need the mime bits to add the attachment.

Anyway, it looks like I need to do something more (besides restarting 
Apache2) to get php to use the php-mail-mime library but I'm not sure 
what. All the Debian information I've found just says "install the 
package php-<whatever> and it will work". Can anyone help me here?

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#231824 — Re: php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server [resolved]

On 2021-02-16 17:56, Gary Dale wrote:
> I'm running Buster on my local server which, among other things, I use 
> for developing web sites before copying them onto a public host. I've 
> recently been getting into a little php coding because there seem to a 
> lot of sample code out there for things I want to do. Usually they 
> work right away when I try running them after having installed 
> libapache2-mod-php.
>
> Right now I'm trying to get a script working that is actually fairly 
> small and seems straightforward. It displays a form that allows you to 
> send an e-mail with an attachment. I actually have some similar 
> scripts working locally that do pretty much the same thing, but I'm 
> trying to get this one to work because the host I use for one site 
> that needs this type of form has broken the script I had been using (I 
> also didn't like it because it seemed overly complicated and 
> under-featured).
>
> This script use the Pear libraries to handle the heavy lifting, which 
> seems like a reasonable design decision. I installed the php-pear 
> package and also php-mail-mime. Unfortunately, the script failed to 
> work. It was uploading the file but failing to send the e-mail.
>
> I was able to find the line that was failing but it puzzles me. The 
> line is
>
>         $message = new Mail_mime();
>
> which should be working. I ran the (frequently recommended) php-info 
> page (<?php  phpinfo();) and it shows a lot of information but nothing 
> about mime. I'd expect that is something php handles though.
>
> I got the script to send an e-mail by removing all the mime parts and 
> just using the php mail() function. However that's not really useful. 
> I need the mime bits to add the attachment.
>
> Anyway, it looks like I need to do something more (besides restarting 
> Apache2) to get php to use the php-mail-mime library but I'm not sure 
> what. All the Debian information I've found just says "install the 
> package php-<whatever> and it will work". Can anyone help me here?
>

The issue turned out to be that script had an incorrect include. It 
asked for Mail_Mime/mime.php when the actual include should have been 
Mail/mime.php. I suspect that the php package names may have changed 
since the author wrote the script and they never bothered to update it.

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#231860 — Re: php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server [resolved]

On 2021-02-18 09:06, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 2021-02-16 17:56, Gary Dale wrote:
>> I'm running Buster on my local server which, among other things, I 
>> use for developing web sites before copying them onto a public host. 
>> I've recently been getting into a little php coding because there 
>> seem to a lot of sample code out there for things I want to do. 
>> Usually they work right away when I try running them after having 
>> installed libapache2-mod-php.
>>
>> Right now I'm trying to get a script working that is actually fairly 
>> small and seems straightforward. It displays a form that allows you 
>> to send an e-mail with an attachment. I actually have some similar 
>> scripts working locally that do pretty much the same thing, but I'm 
>> trying to get this one to work because the host I use for one site 
>> that needs this type of form has broken the script I had been using 
>> (I also didn't like it because it seemed overly complicated and 
>> under-featured).
>>
>> This script use the Pear libraries to handle the heavy lifting, which 
>> seems like a reasonable design decision. I installed the php-pear 
>> package and also php-mail-mime. Unfortunately, the script failed to 
>> work. It was uploading the file but failing to send the e-mail.
>>
>> I was able to find the line that was failing but it puzzles me. The 
>> line is
>>
>>         $message = new Mail_mime();
>>
>> which should be working. I ran the (frequently recommended) php-info 
>> page (<?php  phpinfo();) and it shows a lot of information but 
>> nothing about mime. I'd expect that is something php handles though.
>>
>> I got the script to send an e-mail by removing all the mime parts and 
>> just using the php mail() function. However that's not really useful. 
>> I need the mime bits to add the attachment.
>>
>> Anyway, it looks like I need to do something more (besides restarting 
>> Apache2) to get php to use the php-mail-mime library but I'm not sure 
>> what. All the Debian information I've found just says "install the 
>> package php-<whatever> and it will work". Can anyone help me here?
>>
>
> The issue turned out to be that script had an incorrect include. It 
> asked for Mail_Mime/mime.php when the actual include should have been 
> Mail/mime.php. I suspect that the php package names may have changed 
> since the author wrote the script and they never bothered to update it.

Further to above, when I went to move the script to my host, I 
discovered that the cPanel php-pear installer used the package names 
from the original script. Their Mail_Mime package was actually called 
that while their Mail package doesn't include mime.php.

My host's cPanel php-pear packages appear to be relatively recent as 
some of the documentation has dates from last year. Perhaps the 
different package names is a Debian thing?

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#231876 — Re: php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server [resolved]

On 2021-02-19 09:17, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 2021-02-18 09:06, Gary Dale wrote:
>> On 2021-02-16 17:56, Gary Dale wrote:
>>> I'm running Buster on my local server which, among other things, I 
>>> use for developing web sites before copying them onto a public host. 
>>> I've recently been getting into a little php coding because there 
>>> seem to a lot of sample code out there for things I want to do. 
>>> Usually they work right away when I try running them after having 
>>> installed libapache2-mod-php.
>>>
>>> Right now I'm trying to get a script working that is actually fairly 
>>> small and seems straightforward. It displays a form that allows you 
>>> to send an e-mail with an attachment. I actually have some similar 
>>> scripts working locally that do pretty much the same thing, but I'm 
>>> trying to get this one to work because the host I use for one site 
>>> that needs this type of form has broken the script I had been using 
>>> (I also didn't like it because it seemed overly complicated and 
>>> under-featured).
>>>
>>> This script use the Pear libraries to handle the heavy lifting, 
>>> which seems like a reasonable design decision. I installed the 
>>> php-pear package and also php-mail-mime. Unfortunately, the script 
>>> failed to work. It was uploading the file but failing to send the 
>>> e-mail.
>>>
>>> I was able to find the line that was failing but it puzzles me. The 
>>> line is
>>>
>>>         $message = new Mail_mime();
>>>
>>> which should be working. I ran the (frequently recommended) php-info 
>>> page (<?php  phpinfo();) and it shows a lot of information but 
>>> nothing about mime. I'd expect that is something php handles though.
>>>
>>> I got the script to send an e-mail by removing all the mime parts 
>>> and just using the php mail() function. However that's not really 
>>> useful. I need the mime bits to add the attachment.
>>>
>>> Anyway, it looks like I need to do something more (besides 
>>> restarting Apache2) to get php to use the php-mail-mime library but 
>>> I'm not sure what. All the Debian information I've found just says 
>>> "install the package php-<whatever> and it will work". Can anyone 
>>> help me here?
>>>
>>
>> The issue turned out to be that script had an incorrect include. It 
>> asked for Mail_Mime/mime.php when the actual include should have been 
>> Mail/mime.php. I suspect that the php package names may have changed 
>> since the author wrote the script and they never bothered to update it.
>
> Further to above, when I went to move the script to my host, I 
> discovered that the cPanel php-pear installer used the package names 
> from the original script. Their Mail_Mime package was actually called 
> that while their Mail package doesn't include mime.php.
>
> My host's cPanel php-pear packages appear to be relatively recent as 
> some of the documentation has dates from last year. Perhaps the 
> different package names is a Debian thing?
>
To make my confusion complete, even though the package is called 
Mail_Mime, to access the mime.php procedure, I need to point the include 
to the Mail directory, just like I had to locally. I'm sure that there 
is a logical reason for this somewhere...

So my initial assumption was close to correct. Where the stuff installs 
isn't actually related to the package name.

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