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Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Cannot find functions from the command line From: Chris Hewitt (g0pae <email protected>)
Date: 03/22/04

Andrew Kelly wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 20:03, Chris Hewitt wrote:
>
>>Andrew Kelly wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I just scanned the list archives and couldn't find my problem listed,
>>>forgive me if I just did a poor search.
>>>
>>>I've just been forced to take the 'emergency migration' of an active
>>>website that uses php to communicate with a postgresql backend.
>>>(php 4.2.3, apache 1.3.29, postgresql 7.2.4)
>>>
>>>There was minimal communication with the previous "owner" and all I've
>>>had to work from is a pretty weak Configuration Inventory document. I'm
>>>sure I'll find scads more problems in the days to come, but at the
>>>moment the critical one is this:
>>>
>>>There is a script which calls php from the command line to import a
>>>series of records generated on a remote site. The 'local' php was
>>>compliled with (among others) --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex, and
>>>this functionality is available when the app is accessed through a
>>>browser. However, when the script is run from the command line, it fails
>>>claiming that it cannot find the function mb_ereg_replace(). The command
>>>line script is being run as the same user that runs the online app, from
>>>within the same tree.
>>>php -i shows indicates that the same php.ini file is being used as I can
>>>see in a phpinfo() call through the browser.
>>>
>>>This is all very new to me and I have a ton of pressure from above
>>>because this app is well used.
>>>
>>>Why is more or less core functionality not available from the command
>>>line? Where should I start digging? I'd really, REALLY appreciate any
>>>pointers you can give me.
>>>
>>>With great thanks in advance,
>>>
>>Andrew,
>>
>>I've no direct answer unfortunately, but as I've seen no answers, I
>>offer some thoughts that may be helpful.
>>
>
>Thank you, Chris, I appreciate that.
>When I posted my issue, I immediately received nearly a dozen mails from
>automated systems saying pretty much "I don't read this list, don't send
>me mail", but no other response ever came. I figured that this was a
>dead list and forgot about hoping to find any help in it.
>The next day I twigged to what my problem probably was and was able to
>fix it.
>
>What IS the status of this list, please?
>
I know no more than you really. It used to be quite a popular list,
though never the volume of php-general. Then the autoresponders started
and I think a lot of people got fed up with getting a dozen of them
replying to each post they did and so unsubscribed. I think its a
relatively small list now. Its either that someone has subscribed all
these automated email addresses, or that someone legitimately on the
list is running MS Windows with a virus. I've exchanged emails with a
few of these autoresponder admins and they have all been convinced its
someone running MS Windows with a virus. I'm running Redhat linux as I
have been since before I joined this list, and this is the only list
that I'm on with this autoresponder problem.

>>Is the mb_ereg_replace() function that fails the first mbstring function
>>that the code calls? If it is then I'd suspect the wrong php executable,
>>if it is not then perhaps its the function overloading setting in
>>php.ini. mbstring.func_overload needs to be set between 4 and 7 for the
>>overloaded regex funtions to be available, by calling the base one (in
>>this case ereg_replace()). Is the mbstring function being called
>>directly or the base function and relying on the overload setting?
>>
>
>This is new to me and I'm not really sure I understand what you're
>talking about. Could you go into more detail or point me to some docu,
>please?
>
Yes. I got it from the manual at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php
The idea is that you can chose to use the main functions (e.g.
ereg_replace) but because of the ini setting it will be overloaded and
mb_ereg_replace actually called. I've not used the mbstring functions
myself, so I was just looking up resources to see what I could come up with.

Regards

Chris