Accessing PostgreSQL through Apache and PHP4 on Linux

Chances are, ld can't find libpq.so. Try adding the location of libpq.so
(usually /usr/lib/pgsql or /usr/local/lib/pgsql, but you can use whereis to
find out exactly where) to /etc/ld.so.conf, then run ldconfig. If it is an
ld problem, that should fix it.

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"

From: "Holt, Jack C." <JACK.C.HOLT@saic.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:55:42 -0700
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Accessing PostgreSQL through Apache and PHP4 on Linux

I am running PostgreSQL 7.1.3, RedHat 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2-2), and
PHP/4.0.4pl1. When I try to run a PHP page found below I get an error that
says:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pg_connect() in
/var/www/html/psolver.php on line 10

Additionally, even though pgsql.so IS in /usr/lib/php4 (and php.ini tells
PHP to look there for extensions), I get the following error on the call to
dl().

Warning: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/pgsql.so' - libpq.so:
cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory in
/var/www/html/psolver.php on line 7

Code snippet:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------

<?

dl("pgsql.so");

//connect to database

$conn = pg_connect("","","","psolver");

if(!$conn) {

print("Couldn't connect to psolver");

exit;

}

?>

It looks like PHP was compiled without the PostgreSQL
option. I know that Caldera's and Slackware's PHP
packages do not support PostgreSQL by default.
SuSE's does; but I'm not sure about RedHat's.

Best of luck,

Andrew

--- "Holt, Jack C." <JACK.C.HOLT@saic.com> wrote:

I am running PostgreSQL 7.1.3, RedHat 7.1 (kernel
2.4.2-2), and
PHP/4.0.4pl1. When I try to run a PHP page found
below I get an error that
says:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function:
pg_connect() in
/var/www/html/psolver.php on line 10

Additionally, even though pgsql.so IS in
/usr/lib/php4 (and php.ini tells
PHP to look there for extensions), I get the
following error on the call to
dl().

Warning: Unable to load dynamic library
'/usr/lib/php4/pgsql.so' - libpq.so:
cannot load shared object file: No such file or
directory in
/var/www/html/psolver.php on line 7

Code snippet:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------
<?
dl("pgsql.so");

//connect to database
$conn = pg_connect("","","","psolver");
if(!$conn) {
print("Couldn't connect to psolver");
exit;
}
?>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Vincent [mailto:mvincent@cablespeed.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:32 AM
To: Holt, Jack C.
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Accessing PostgreSQL through Apache and PHP4
on Linux

You didn't compile PHP with PostgreSQL support.

Recompile and add --with-pgsql to the configure line.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Holt, Jack C." <JACK.C.HOLT@saic.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] Accessing PostgreSQL through Apache and PHP4 on Linux

I am running PostgreSQL 7.1.3, RedHat 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2-2), and
PHP/4.0.4pl1. When I try to run a PHP page found below I get an error

that

says:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pg_connect() in
/var/www/html/psolver.php on line 10

Additionally, even though pgsql.so IS in /usr/lib/php4 (and php.ini tells
PHP to look there for extensions), I get the following error on the call

to

dl().

Warning: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/pgsql.so' -

libpq.so:

cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory in
/var/www/html/psolver.php on line 7

Code snippet:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

--

"Holt, Jack C." <JACK.C.HOLT@saic.com> writes:

I am running PostgreSQL 7.1.3, RedHat 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2-2)

Psst... you should apply available updates.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pg_connect() in
/var/www/html/psolver.php on line 10

You need install the php-pgsql rpm.

--
Trond Eivind Glomsr�d
Red Hat, Inc.

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:34:21 -0700 (PDT) Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> wrote:

It looks like PHP was compiled without the PostgreSQL
option. I know that Caldera's and Slackware's PHP
packages do not support PostgreSQL by default.
SuSE's does; but I'm not sure about RedHat's.

on RedHat 7.1, you need to install the following RPM to get pgsql support
for php:

php-pgsql-4.0.4pl1-9

it's on one of the CDs in all the distributions (i forget which CD), or
available from the RedHat ftp download site.

richard