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

[Michael K. <mic...@ip...>]

Thanks Lonnie. You are awesome!

Regards
Michael Knill

On 14/4/21, 9:40 pm, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lo...> wrote:

    Done.

    php, enable curl module support
    https://github.com/astlinux-project/astlinux/commit/bd14d1a63bedd36fc1556e326f2dda5bb96703e4

    Increases image size by 23K compressed, 60K uncompressed


    Lonnie


    > On Apr 13, 2021, at 8:24 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...> wrote:
    > 
    > 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:
    >> 
    >> Correction... Astlinux PHP version (7.2) is already at end-of-life.
    >> https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
    >> 
    >> David.
    >> 
    >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
    >> 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...>
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 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.
    >> 
    >> 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.
    >> 
    >> David.
    >> 
    >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:55 AM Michael Knill <mic...@ip...> wrote:
    >> Hi Devs
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 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.
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 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.
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Thanks
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Regards
    >> 
    >> Michael Knill
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> From: Matthew Knill <mat...@ip...>
    >> Date: Tuesday, 13 April 2021 at 12:11 pm
    >> To: Michael Knill <mic...@ip...>
    >> Subject: Astlinux PHP packages
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 	• 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)
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Regards,
    >> 
    >> Matthew Knill
    >> 
    >> 
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