opulencephp/Opulence

Required PHP Extensions

rdnn opened this issue · 4 comments

rdnn commented

It might be worth considering updating the documentation to list all required PHP extensions. For example, ctype is required and causes a Opulence\Debug\Errors\FatalThrowableError to be thrown if not loaded. So far, here's a list of extensions required (including those required for composer):

  • ctype
  • dom
  • filter
  • hash
  • json
  • mbstring
  • openssl
  • phar
  • session
  • tokenizer
  • xml
davidbyoung commented

The following extensions are actually part of the PHP core, so probably don't need to be listed:

  • filter
  • hash
  • phar
  • sessions
  • tokenizer

The following are bundled extensions, so probably also do not need to be explicitly listed:

  • ctype
  • json
  • mbstring

The following are external extensions, and should be documented:

  • dom
  • openssl (already documented)
  • xml

Can you point me to where the DOM and XML extensions are used in Opulence?

rdnn commented

True! filter, hash, phar, session, and tokenizer are part of the PHP core. However, FreeBSD (and perhaps other systems) provide those extensions independently (session, for example, http://www.freshports.org/www/php70-session). The same applies to ctype, json, and mbstring. Might be worth mentioning, maybe not. Not sure how big the FreeBSD audience is..

Regarding DOM/XML, they are only required for phpunit.

alchimik commented

I installed mbstring manually (ubuntu 16.04)

davidbyoung commented

I've included those extensions in the installation docs: https://www.opulencephp.com/docs#requirements. Closing this.