Re: PHP on slackware

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.

Best,

Jim Wilson

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