Re: Calling all Windows users - which PHP extensions do you use?

On 26 Jan 2007 at 23:05, Steph Fox wrote: <snip> > So we need to know which extensions you find yourselves using, because the > obvious thing to do here would be to build the most common ones into the > PHP binary as static (giving you less 'stuff' to distribute alongside your > applications) and make any further extensions available through the > download page on request. > > If you're running under NT/XP/Vista, we'd still like to know your needs > because a) there are currently no PECL extensions provided for the FastCGI > optimized binaries, and b) to the best of my knowledge these are currently > built against the 'old' C runtime rather than the one optimal for your > system. Both these things are likely to change in the foreseeable > future... we just don't know when. > > So - feedback, please! Using win2k for development. Deployment on win2k/xp, I stopped dealing with win98 a long time ago and won't touch ME with a bargepole... As for Vista, I'd wait till the wrinkles are ironed out... :) The essential extensions are: - mysqli (as a matter of course - one of my apps has a table with over 10M rows, and with mysql, you *can* try this at home :), - gd2 (using this to create thumbnail images and "contact sheets"), - mbstring (gd2 requires this), - win32std (for the file/folder dialogs, windows users tend to find the gtk file dialogs rather confusing) XML related stuff might be useful as I'm looking into generating Open Document compatible output - but I'm not holding my breath on this as this is not a simple matter and I have too many other things to do... **php-gtk rocks!** Cheers, -- André =========================================================== Black Holes were created when God divided by zero.