Hello there,

I just installed Linux 9. Now I want to write a page that uses this class: xslt_class which takes a xml file and a xslt file and transform to a html file. This class requires that my php be recompiled using this option: --with-dom. An online instruction says I need to go to
/usr/local/src and type the following command:
./configure --with-dom --with-apache=../apache_1.3.12
to recompile. However, configure is no where to be found. could you please help me activate --with-dom. Thank you very much.

You need to download and unpack the PHP source first.

You can get the source here:
www.php.net/downloads.php

Unpacking the source is covered (though not in much detail) in the PHP installation instructions:
www.php.net/manual/en/installation.php

Hello,
My system already has php installed by default. You suggested to download and install it again. I wonder that will cause any problem. If I want to remove it before installing the new one, where would I find it to delete. Thanks.

By the way, is there any way I can recompile the existing php instead of intalling the new php? Thanks

by Linux 9 do you mean Redhat 9?

Yes, it is Redhat 9. Thanks

Grab the source RPM
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/lin...2-17.2.src.rpm
Install it, you should see a php4.spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPEC
open it up, under the build() section you should see a list of configure options, add your option there.
to build it, type "rpmbuild -bb php4.spec", install dependencies if required.
After its done you'll see a bunch of php-* packages in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386, reinstall them over your current ones.

Hello,
thank you for the instructions. I did exactly what you said and added --with-dom-xslt=DIRECTORY_OF_XSLT and --with-dom-exslt=DIRECTORY_OF_EXSLT to php.spec. However, I still cannot use class_xslt.php. It complains the following error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: xslt_create() in /home/phamtranquocviet/web/196/hw4/class_xslt.php on line 85.

In windows, I got the same error, and it worked when I turned on the xslt feature by adding the following lines to php.ini:
extension=php_domxml.dll
extension=php_xslt.dll
extension=php_sockets.dll

Now, I checked and made sure similar options were in php.spec. Could you please tell me why it does not work in Redhat? Thank you very much.

ok I dunno much about PHP, check out the documentation
http://au.php.net/manual/en/ref.xslt.php