From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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To: | Jim Wilson <jimw(at)kelcomaine(dot)com> |
Cc: | <shridhar(at)frodo(dot)hserus(dot)net>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: PHP on slackware |
Date: | 2004-03-05 19:40:39 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0403051239560.17161-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Jim Wilson wrote:
> Shridhar Daithankar said:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to deploy drupal on my machine to play around with. Only to
> > discover to my horror that slackware ships with a php package that does not
> > include postgresql extension.
> >
> > Frankly I am irritated. I don't want to compile any damn stuff. Slack has
> > worked so far for me but it's postgresql support is lamer than I could have
> > thought..
> >
> > Does anybody have any idea what could be done, short of rolling my own php
> > package?
> >
> > DAMN SLACK!!! Off to googling..
> >
> > Shridhar
>
> This isn't a php list, so forgive me for pointing out that php is very easy
> to build and well worth the effort for many things you may want to include or
> eliminate other than postgres support. For example, the pdf support was very
> attractive here. BTW, I too reviewed drupal recently and ended up modifying
> phpwebsite to work with postgres. Open source CMS still has a ways to go, but
> phpwebsite looked like a good start next to the older packages.
Note that there IS a list just for postgresql & php:
pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
It welcomes such questions and discussions.
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