Re: [Astlinux-devel] Fwd: FW: Astlinux PHP packages

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

I'll look into enabling libcurl support in PHP, as David has been building with it for a long time.

As for "iconv", AFAIK this has nothing to do with parsing CSV, but rather language character set conversion using libiconv [1] which is not the first choice to other solutions.

Matthew, if you are looking for CSV parsing, take a look at str_getcsv() which we have.

Lonnie

[1] https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.iconv.php




> On Apr 13, 2021, at 7:55 AM, David Kerr <da...@ke...> wrote:
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> Correction... Astlinux PHP version (7.2) is already at end-of-life.
> https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
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> David.
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> From: David Kerr <da...@ke...>
> Date: Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 8:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-devel] FW: Astlinux PHP packages
> To: AstLinux Developers Mailing List <ast...@li...>
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> As many of you probably know I have my own custom build of Astlinux.  PHP-curl is one of the packages I included long ago.  I don't recall why, I just know that I discovered I needed it for something so I turned it on.  So I'll add my vote to Michaels request.
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> While on the subject of PHP it may be worth observing that our current version goes out-of-support in ~7 months.  So an upgrade to version 8 needs to be considered.  I didn't know there was a version 8 until I ran across the need to test for a string within a string and googling suggested I use str_contains() function.  Cool thinks I.  Turns out that is a new function added to v8 so not available to me yet.
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> David.
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> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:55 AM Michael Knill <mic...@ip...> wrote:
> Hi Devs
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> Matthew (my developer) mentioned that the below PHP packages would be very desirable to have included in the standard Astlinux build. Yes I know I can roll my own but it is such a pain and others are so much better at it than us.
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> We are starting to do quite a bit of API integration and php-curl is commonly required. My understanding is that they are pretty small.
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> Thanks
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> Regards
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> Michael Knill
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> From: Matthew Knill <mat...@ip...>
> Date: Tuesday, 13 April 2021 at 12:11 pm
> To: Michael Knill <mic...@ip...>
> Subject: Astlinux PHP packages
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> 	• php7.2-curl – this package will be useful for making HTTP requests directly from PHP and is used to integrate with many APIs (i.e. we would use it for Mailgun integration)
> 	• php7.2-iconv – this package will be useful for converting encoding for CSV imports (which we use for importing from a CSV to LDAP directory)
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> Regards,
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> Matthew Knill
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