Install of php5-ftp seems incomplete

[JAyenGreen (Jeff Greenberg)]

I did a port install of php5-ftp. The install ran cleanly, but phpinfo doesn't show an ftp section, php.ini shows no ftp entries, and when I try running a local version of a script I have running on a server (with working ftp), I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function ftp_connect()

I then noticed I was on an old version of macports (2.1.2), so I did a self-update and then updated the ports. Following is the output of the php5-ftp install, which was again clean, and still resulted in the error, above.

--->  Cleaning php5
--->  Computing dependencies for php5-ftp
--->  Fetching archive for php5-ftp
--->  Attempting to fetch php5-ftp-5.3.28_0.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/php5-ftp
--->  Attempting to fetch php5-ftp-5.3.28_0.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/php5-ftp
--->  Attempting to fetch php5-ftp-5.3.28_0.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/php5-ftp
--->  Fetching distfiles for php5-ftp
--->  Verifying checksums for php5-ftp
--->  Extracting php5-ftp
--->  Configuring php5-ftp
--->  Building php5-ftp
--->  Staging php5-ftp into destroot
--->  Installing php5-ftp @5.3.28_0
--->  Cleaning php5-ftp
--->  Computing dependencies for php5-ftp
--->  Deactivating php5-ftp @5.3.27_0
--->  Cleaning php5-ftp
--->  Activating php5-ftp @5.3.28_0
--->  Cleaning php5-ftp

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It should work, however ports whose names begin with php5- are deprecated; please use the corresponding php53-, php54-, php55- or php56- port for the version of PHP you want. Let me know if it has the same problem.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

php5-ftp does work for me—at least, the ftp_connect function is defined for me:

$ php -r 'echo (int)function_exists("ftp_connect")."\n";'
1

[JAyenGreen (Jeff Greenberg)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

php5-ftp does work for me—at least, the ftp_connect function is defined for me:

$ php -r 'echo (int)function_exists("ftp_connect")."\n";'
1

I'm very confused now. When I do the above, I get the same result, that the function exists. When I hit the page with my browser, I get the error. I've verified that

which php

points to /opt/local/bin/php, and that phpinfo() run from the site this page is part of returns the same location. In the phpinfo() return, ftp is mentioned in two places: Registered PHP Streams, and Loaded Modules (mod_proxy_ftp ). Is there anything else I should look at before tossing in the towel and uninstalling it in favor of the php53- version (I noticed that all of my php ports are php5 and not php53-) ?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Could you save your phpinfo page as html and attach it here? I'll see if I can see what's wrong.

[JAyenGreen (Jeff Greenberg)]

phpinfo() output in html format

[JAyenGreen (Jeff Greenberg)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Could you save your phpinfo page as html and attach it here? I'll see if I can see what's wrong.

Done, thanks!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Just to check: have you restarted apache since installing php5-ftp?

[JAyenGreen (Jeff Greenberg)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Just to check: have you restarted apache since installing php5-ftp?

*forehead slap* I did, but apparently I did a

sudo apachectl restart

instead of

sudo ./apachectl restart

which caused the OSX apache to start instead of the ports one. It's fine now. I'm sorry for that! Thanks so much for the help.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Very good!