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 some packages required for Gtk

sudo apt-get install php5-cli php5-dev php5-gd libgtk2.0-dev libglade2-dev

If you haven't installed the build essentials, now would be a good time to do so:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

If you haven't installed the cvs package, you also need to do that:

sudo apt-get install cvs

Now connect to the repository: <press enter when prompted for a password>

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

Check out the necessary files:

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

Change to the new php-gtk directory:

cd /home/****/php-gtk

Then run the following commands: [one line at a time]

./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

Thanks it!