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

Hi André, OK, I'm confused - since when did gd2 require mbstring? The rest makes sense... Thanks, - Steph ----- Original Message ----- From: "André Jansen" <theflyingdutchman@libero.it> To: "PHP-GTK gen" <php-gtk-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-GTK] 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. -- PHP-GTK General Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php