Re: com_dotnet

Steve wrote:
"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:UOednTt_JMQuNHXbnZ2dnUVZ_qKgnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Steve wrote:
Not at all. OK, on a Windows system MySQL support is supplied by php_mysql.dll. And if MySQL isn't installed, the DLL won't load and phpinfo() will show MySQL support isn't enabled.

The MySQL interface is NOT compiled into PHP on the distributed Windows binaries - or you'd never be able to run PHP unless you had MySQL installed.
again, you brought up the mysql example. i'm keeping this generic and modules like .net and others can certainly be compiled directly into php.

Nope, I just corrected your misstatements about PHP and MySQL. It is typical of the way PHP modules act. Other modules act the same way.

and other modules at the same time do NOT act the same way, but in the way i described. since you won't get off the mysql specifics theme and refuse to see my "misstatements" at the conceptual level i intended...let's talk about ODBC and php. i can "enable" odbc in php. however i do that is beside the point. that main thing to note is that the "enabling" doesn't require *ANY* db to be installed...since there is NO *literal* ODBC database. odbc is a protocol, not a database. so your point about having to have third party applications installed for every lib/extension that may consume them carries no weight. *SOME* extensions are protocols, some are functional resources, and some are just type libraries. in the case of .net enabling, it is a set of functional resources that php to use the .net framework. that does NOT mean that phpinfo() would show different results when the same compiled version of php gets put on a server with the .net framework and on one without. it shows "enabled" in both cases.


I said modules which require external libraries - which .NET does. And even protocols need the appropriate libraries installed. If that is not so, specifically which modules are those?

try it. until then, you have an unqualified "Nope". after you do, as i have done this evening, your "Nope" will turn to an "Oh...Ok, Ooops".


Show me exactly which ones act at hat way, please.

now to say that i have to have mysql (specifically) installed on my system that runs php and enables php is rather odd since i should be able to connect to any server running mysql if i provide the proper credentials, etc.. for this specific mysql lib, you're saying the dependency is an absolute must (that i have to have mysql installed on the same server though i otherwise have NO intention of ever using it)? can you tell me you've actually *done* this in order to prove it to yourself before? do you have a documented reference to support this?

You need to have the MySQL client libraries installed on the system running PHP - just like if it were MSSQL Oracle or any other module. So yes, the dependency is an absolute must.

omg! you weren't even paying attention. the way in which php is compile or whether or not modules exist IS NOT EVEN THE POINT!!! i already explained that the "libraries" are indeed needed if the extension is not able to be compiled into php!


Yes, it does. If you're going to compile the extension into PHP itself, the libraries must be available at compile time, and when you run PHP, or PHP won't load.

If you're going to compile something as an extension module, then those libraries need to be present when you compile the extension and when you load the extension.

read the OP. he wanted to know:

"And I'm wondering why PHP says .net support = enabled where .net is NOT installed."

are you just arguing with me for the sake of arguing?!!! my point is that ENABLING a feature in php has NOTHING to do with whether or not the TARGET (.net framework in this case) is installed. i never disagreed with "client libraries", in fact i specifically stated how php could include features (compilation or run-time loading) and even states precisely that the extension in question MUST exist in order to either compile it in or load at run-time. did you miss that whole thread?


No, I'm saying the .NET support is different than any other module - PHP says the support is installed, even when it isn't. But .NET support is experimental, so there will be some bugs.


You need to learn how these modules work. It's not just PHP - the same is true in C/C++, for instance.

i know how they do. it just seems you haven't even been on the same topic. i'm talking about third-party applications and you're talking about libraries that make it possible for php to use them.


Anything not from ZEND is a third-party application. They can be libraries or applications.

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Great. Now try to get it to work when the COM module you're calling isn't installed on the system. Or the new vendor when you don't have the DLL installed.

Great. now try and follow a thread, see what was asked, and THEN judge the answer. you're not even in the ball park as far as this topic is concerned.


I did. And you're still telling me other modules say their extensions can be loaded and show up as enabled, even though the necessary libraries aren't installed. Again, which ones are those?

am i going to hear back from you on this post? i'd be embarrassed to had i done the same thing. but it takes a certain kind of person to step back from such a defensive position as you've taken and say that, indeed, "i just misunderstood what you were explaining".

we'll see.



Then you should be embarrassed for your incorrect statements.

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