php et postgresql

Postgresql support for PHP in Slackware

Slackware lacks postgresql support, so porting PHP webapps on a new server is a trouble. This article solved my problem in less then ten minutes.

In short

You need only the PHP pgsql.so module

 Verify with pkgtool what's your PHP version, mine is 5.2.6 (Slackware 12.1)

Download in /usr/local/src the PHP sources, I take them from php.net website using this link

http://www.php.net/get/php-5.2.8.tar.bz2/from/a/mirror

replacing the version number

http://www.php.net/get/php-5.2.6.tar.bz2/from/a/mirror

extract the compressed tarball, dive into the newly created directory and, as article say, type

./configure --with-pgsql=shared,/usr

then

make

Now copy the module in the corrected directory

cp modules/pgsql.so /usr/lib64/php/extensions/

open with an editor /etc/httpd/php.ini and add this line

extension=pgsql.so

approx at line 652

restart apache

/etc/rc.d/rc.httpd restart

done