Re: PHP on slackware

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@postgresql.org

It welcomes such questions and discussions.