Now on with installation. Thanks to topicdesk for leading the way with detailed OSX 10.5.x [...]]]> Another post for my fading memory, how to install the GD libraries for your Leopard Apache installation running PHP 5.2.5. I will be using these libraries in a forthcoming blog about the use of ‘sparklines‘ to present complex performance monitoring data.

Now on with installation. Thanks to topicdesk for leading the way with detailed OSX 10.5.x server installation instructions. Here’s my own shorthand version …

Note: You will first need to install the Apple Developer Tools that come with your OSX installation DVD!

1. Download, compile and install a copy of libjpeg in your ~/Downloads directory
cd ~/Downloads/jpeg-6b
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.sub .
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.guess .
./configure --enable-shared
sudo make
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/include
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1
sudo make install

2. Download, compile and install a copy of PHP GD extensions in your ~/Downloads directory
cd ~/Downloads/php-5.2.4/ext/gd/
sudo phpize
sudo ./configure --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-freetype-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6
sudo make
sudo make install

3. Modify your php.ini
sudo cp /etc/php.ini.default /etc/php.ini
sudo vi /etc/php.ini
add the following line to your extensions
extension=gd.so
comment the following line for your extensions dir with a ';'
extension_dir = "./"
save and quit vi (:wq!)

4. Restart Apache and check the results using phpinfo()
sudo apachectl restart

“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class soapclient in ../nusoap.php on line 7240″

A quick google search will reveal the following cause. As PHP5 already has a built in class called soapclient, this is where the clash is…

The best way to fix this [...]]]> When installing the NuSOAP class on a system with PHP5, you may get the following error:

“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class soapclient in ../nusoap.php on line 7240″

A quick google search will reveal the following cause.
As PHP5 already has a built in class called soapclient, this is where the clash is…

The best way to fix this problem is to rename all instances of soapclient with nusoapclient in the lib and samples directories that come with the 0.7.2 version of NuSOAP.