Setting up PHP-Gtk [Ubuntu]

[John]

One of PHP's nifty extensions is PHP-Gtk which acts as wrapper around the GTK library. Under Ubuntu Gusty Gibbons with the use of the synaptic package manager, installing this extension is simple.

First update your current repositories:

sudo apt-get update

Next, install the required packages.

sudo apt-get install build-essential php5-cli php5-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglade2-dev cvs

Log in to the PHP anonymous CVS server (use phpfi as the password):

cvs -d :pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository login

Obtain the PHP-GTK tree.

cvs -d :pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository co php-gtk

Move into the source tree:

cd php-gtk

Configure and install:

./buildconf
./configure
make
sudo make install

Open your php.ini

sudo nano /etc/php5/cli/php.ini

Scroll to the extensions section and add the following line:

extension=php_gtk2.so

Finally, test your installation by typing the following line:

php -m | grep php-gtk

which should echo a single line that says:

php-gtk

Thats it!

[another_sam]

I get the next at step 3 (cvs -d :pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository login):

Fatal error, aborting.
cvsread: no such user

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04.

[John]

They have made changes to their repositories since I wrote this. Take a look at the "CVS Version" section here: PHP-GTK : Downloads Between that and this, you should be able to get it installed.

[another_sam]

I've reached the ./buildconf . The output is:

Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20041225
Zend Module Api No: 20060613
Zend Extension Api No: 220060519
rebuilding aclocal.m4
rebuilding configure
configure.in:77: warning: LTOPTIONS_VERSION is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
aclocal.m4:2912: LT_INIT is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:2947: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is expanded from...
configure.in:77: the top level
configure.in:77: warning: LTSUGAR_VERSION is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
configure.in:77: warning: LTVERSION_VERSION is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
configure.in:77: warning: LTOBSOLETE_VERSION is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
configure:12798: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_ifval
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
configure:16506: error: possibly undefined macro: _LT_SET_OPTIONS
configure:16506: error: possibly undefined macro: LT_INIT
make[1]: *** [configure] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2