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Chapter 1

Figure 1-7

Running the conﬁgure Script

Within your PHP5 directory (probably named something like php-5.0.0RC1.), you’ll ﬁnd a shell script

named configure. This script accepts arguments to control the features that PHP will support. You’ll

need to run this script to conﬁgure compilation, not PHP5 itself (PHP conﬁguration with php.ini will

come later).

Commands Available for the conﬁgure Script

The default conﬁgure is to compile PHP5 as a CGI binary. Use the –with-apache option to compile

PHP5 as a static module; use the –with-apxs option to compile PHP5 as a DSO. For this installation, use

the –with_apxs option (actually –with_apxs2 because you’re running Apache 2).

Here are some of the command line arguments that you may use when you compile PHP5. The conﬁgure

command is ./configure (the ./ lets it run) followed by a single space and then as many of the

following options as you like:

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–enable-track-vars: Automatically populates associative arrays with values submitted as

part of GET and POST requests or provided in a cookie.

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–with-gd = /path/to/directory: Enables support for the GD library that allows you to

create dynamic GIF and PNG images from your scripts. You’ll either want to compile with this or

add this module later to do the graphics work in Chapter 16.

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–with-mysql = /path/to/directory: With MySQL support.

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–with-pgsql = /path/to/directory: With PostgreSQL support.