Re: MySQL and PHP - What are you using?

["Reuben D. Budiardja" <techlist voyager phys utk edu>]

For me, most of the basic stuff works with the RPMs from Redhat. MySQL works 
out of the box, PHP is fairly recent and the modules are fairly completes.

However, when developing with PHP, I found RH packages lack some stuff. For 
example, there's no PHP CLI version. I can't install some PEAR modules 
because 'phpize' is not included in any of the RPM. Try 'pear install SQLite' 
for example and it will fail. 
The PHP also does not have Oracle (--with-oci8) client with it (which is 
understandable, I guess). So for my development box I just compile PHP from 
source. 

And although we're talking about MySQL, I also found out that the PostgreSQL 
shipped with RHEL is funky weird. Maybe it's just me, but darn it, I couldn't 
get things to work, and looks like it's has some more "security features" 
added to it in the basic conf, which make it real hard to do something quick 
(for example, I have to create a user in the system before I can login using 
that username as a database user...!?!? ), and it makes it not sync with the 
docs from postgresql website, and since there's no docs with rh-postgresql 
that explains what RH does with its version, I was having a real hard time 
trying to do something darn simple. In the end, out of frustration I 
uninstalled the RPM  and planning to compile it myself from source. 

Having said all that, I'd see and check first if the shipped versions hav all 
that you need. If thet do, there's no reason to make life harder.

Reuben D. Budiardja.