fribidi on windows binary installation

[aalmos]

Hi,
I'm trying to use the fribidi functionality from the binary installation of php 4.3.2 on windows. When I try to call the fribidi function I get undefined error. I can see that the fribidi dll exists under the dll directory of the installation dir, but somehow it is not working. Does anyone knows how to solve this?
Thanks,
a

[Mordecai]

Do you have this extension enabled? It'd be something like this in PHP.ini:
extension=fribidi.dll
You'll have to add it, since FriBiDi isn't packaged with PHP.

[aalmos]

When I try to put it as extension in the php.ini file, I get an error message saying that it's not a valid php extension.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
a

[piersk]

According to this (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.fribidi.php), you need to download and install the FriBiDi package, which you can do so from here (http://fribidi.sourceforge.net/). Since it is on SourceForge, that suggests to me that it's free :)

If you've already done this, then I'm not quite sure what FriBiDi is, so I'm gonna have to research this further.

[aalmos]

The win32 binary installation of php already includes fribidi.dll under the dlls folder so I figured it should work...

[piersk]

I think that would just allow PHP to use it, but you probably still have to download the software behind it.

Think of it like MySQL: you can connect to MySQL without downloading anything, but you need a server to connect to.

[aalmos]

your'e probably right, thanks for the clarification!

a