Wrestling with XML objects in PHP!

bluegospel · 08-18-2011, 08:16 PM

I'm trying to enable the processing of XML with XSLT from PHP. To do that I need the XSL extension enabled. I'm running CentOS 5.

"No Nonsense XML Web Development," reads, "[The XSL extension] isn't enabled by default; so you'll need to compile it in using --with-xsl on Unix-style installations."

Again, http://www.php.net/manual/en/xsl.installation.php:

Quote:

PHP 5 includes the XSL extension by default and can be enabled by adding the argument --with-xsl[=DIR] to your configure line. DIR is the libxslt installation directory.

What does this mean? What's "the configure line?" Where do I use, "--with-xsl[=DIR]"? Your help is appreciated.

farshidlk · 08-19-2011, 03:44 AM

seems you will need to compile PHP yourself rather than install it by rpm -i command.

to do so extract the PHP package with "tar xzf <php-x.y.tar.gz>" or "tar xjf <php-x.y.tar.bz2>" if it is compressed with bzip2.

then cd to the extracted PHP directory and type:

./configure --help (to see what compilation options are available)
./configure --with-xsl (to enable xsl as per their instruction)
then type:
make

and then:

make install

you can take a look at

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html

hope it helps

bluegospel · 08-19-2011, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by farshidlk

seems you will need to compile PHP yourself

Thanks farshidlk. I didn't mention that PHP is installed already. Sorry about that. I just don't have the functionality to produce (or read in) xml objects from within PHP, which if I understand correctly, requires enabling the XSL extension by compiling it using --with-xsl.

So should I still take this recommended course of build-make-install? If so, which directory should I be in when I run ./configure? Thanks again.

bluegospel · 08-19-2011, 01:05 PM

I'm really struggling with this. Can somebody lend me their knowledge?