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!