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

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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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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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