RE: [cobalt-users] PayFlowPro PHP Functions

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From: Troy Arnold [mailto:cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:46 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-users] PayFlowPro PHP Functions


Thanks to everyone in the help in getting the Verisign PayFlowPro package
functioning. I seem to have run into a snag though, getting direct calls to
the PFPro app from PHP.

We located an extension for PHP on http://www.php.net which has everything
we need. Unfortunately it appears that we must recompile PHP to get this
functionality. Since I have been installing the PHP PKG's from
http://pkgmaster.com I am not sure of the methodology required to get this
functional.

At http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pfpro.php the PFPro extension is listed
as being included with PHP. There it states that these functions are only
available if PHP has been compiled with the --with-pfpro[=DIR] option. On
the bottom of this page there is a how-to for reinstalling PHP and
PayFlowPro. Not sure if it is applicable on a Cobalt and am obviously
hesitant to recompile PHP in this environment.

My questions are as follows...
Can I simply add this option into the php.ini or some other file?
Do I have to actually recompile PHP (or the newest version)?
If so, what are the caveats of installing PHP manually?
Anyone else using this feature/functionality successfully and have any
feedback?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Troy Arnold
websetters, inc.
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Troy,

You will NEED to recompile it manually.  If you already installed the PFPro,
it
should NOT be hard to recompile.  I posted instructed on my sites how to
compile
it, and also set it up so that you can UN-INST it at will.  Check it out for
pretty
simple instructions.

Of course, if you never really worked with compiling software, I will setup
a lot
of time to work out your bugs.

http://www.nuonce.net/cobalt-php.php.

Just add you --wtih-pfpro=/path/to/pfpro line to my "configure" line, and it
should
be good.  I would recommend first configuring with out your option, just to
make
sure that it does work!

Thanks,

Brian N. Smith