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php-pear etc. on an Apache2 server

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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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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

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