PHP 5.4.4 unrecognized --enable-dbase

Question

I'm trying to compile php 5.4.4 on a CentOS 6.1 x64 server with --enable-dbase option but instead I receive this error: configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-dbase

I saw that in the ./ext/ dir there's no dbase folder so I downloaded the source from http://pecl.php.net/package/dbase. Still, the same error. Does anyone encountered this problem before?

Answer 1

The dbase extension was removed from the PHP distribution in 5.3.

You need to install it directly from PECL, after compiling PHP.

Answer 2

test if you use Linux distro Ubuntu or Debian

sudo apt-get install php-pear php5-dev
sudo pecl install dbase

(optional if you php vertions > 5.5 and show error run -> sudo pecl install -Z dbase )

create file

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/dbase.ini

and add this line in dbase.ini extension=dbase.so

(add lib extension dbase.so in php.ini) sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini add line extension=dbase.so

sudo service apache2 restar

and test your functions in php. to me it worked, I hope you find it useful.

Answer 3

I think you now have to install it via pecl or pear instead of having it done when compiling php source, maybe the manual hasn't been updated yet