Re: [Phpwiki-talk] problem with phpwiki using dba.

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Adam Shand wrote:

> phpwiki works great when i set it like this in lib/conifig.php:
>
> $WhichDatabase = 'file';
>
> but as soon as i try to set it to 'dba' i get this error:
>
> Warning: Variable passed to reset() is not an array or object in /var/www/devel.spack.org/phpwiki/lib/dbalib.php on line 52
> Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in /var/www/devel.spack.org/phpwiki/lib/dbalib.php on line 53
> WikiFatalError
> Cannot open database 'wiki' : '/tmp/wikipagesdb', giving up.

First, I hope you don't name the file directory and the DBM files the
same... that's just an initial guess.

>
> the web server does have permissions to write there because it works just
> fine in file mode so i'm not sure what to do.  i'm wondering if debian has
> done something a little weird, it breaks all the php extensions into
> seperate packages so i only have the core, imap and gd ones installed.
> does dba need to be listed in an "extension=xxx" line in my php.ini file?

There was a post on the list recently about a special config option, and I
think it was about Debian but I can't find it in the list archives... a
module had to be loaded by PHP at runtime.

Also, did you compile the package yourself or use get-apt (or whatever
Debian uses?) You might try setting it to 'dbm' instead of 'dba' and see
if that works. I was wondering if dba_* support was compiled in or not.

Let me know if any of that helps and we'll try again if not.

~swain

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