Just Let It Flow!

It’s been literally years I’ve been working on this site. I’ve literally rode the wheel around and around several times on this. The site has been released with basic functionality needed for the site to grow. As the weeks continue to pass, I am going to be adding functionality to it. Some of those being: commenting, messaging, icons, contests, and activities.

I now need to work on the promotion of the website, touch the design up a tad bit, and get a more official logo.

Check it out: http://poetrycircle.net/ 

If anyone reading this can help, please feel free to comment.

Now, that the site is done, I have more projects to work on. Though, one has jumped into the mix, ahead of all others. I will update when I complete that one as well.

While in the process of maintaining my dedicated server, I ran into a bit of a ‘bump’ so to say. It all started when after I updated to PHP 5.2.1. I recieved an email from one of the people I host, asking why he had a 5MB error_log file.

He supplied me with the contents of the log file, which were:

[11-Mar-2007 17:00:45] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: pdf: Unable to initialize moduleModule compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=0PHP    compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=0These options need to matchin Unknown on line 0

Knowing that I had installed a PECL module for PDFLib, I assumed that it was it, I was right. I had previously went through a ton of hoops to get this to work. Here is how I fixed the error message above and how I got mine working. I would like to note that I am not a Linux expert.

I used PDFLib Lite, for free, non-commercial use. http://www.pdflib.com/download/pdflib-family/pdflib-lite/

You need to be root/sudo while doing this and PEAR/PECL needs to be installed.

wget http://www.pdflib.com/binaries/PDFlib/701/PDFlib-Lite-7.0.1.tar.gz

tar xzvf PDFlib-Lite-7.0.1.tar.gz

cd PDFlib-Lite-7.0.1

./configure --prefix=/usr

make

make install

pecl install pdflib  (will ask for installation directory, type: /usr/)

You should recieve a string similar to this:

"Build process completed successfully
Installing '/var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-pdflib-2.1.2//usr/local/lib/php/ext ensions/no-debug-non-zts-20050922/pdf.so'"

What I did next, was copy the pdf.so file into my php extensions directory:

cp /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-<tab>/pdf.so /usr/include/php/ext

I then modified my php.ini file, to load the pdflib, by adding the following line to the extensions section:

extension=pdf.so

I hope this helps some of those that got this error. There isn’t much help out there on this error, that I could find on google, that is why I decided to post it in my blog.