Re: Accessing PostgreSQL through Apache and PHP4 on Linux

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(dot)C(dot)HOLT(at)saic(dot)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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