[Phpwm] installing ZIP functions

[Greg Jones]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:34:53 +0100, alan dunn <alan at dunns.co.uk> wrote:

> We are running php 5.1.2 and need to read some zip'ed files. It looks  
> like we don't have the ZIP functionality installed.
>
> Reading the documentation it seems to say we have to re-install php in  
> order to get the zip element (--enable-zip). Is this really true?
>
> If it is - help! We installed initially as part of 10.1 Suse Linux via  
> Yast, and trying to do it from the ground up appears to be a nightmare.
> We tried, failed and reverted to the backup. Any help will be  
> appreciated.
> thanks, alan dunn


If there isn't a SUSE package for it, then installing PECL (part of the  
PEAR package,which for debian is 'php-pear') and running
pecl install zip
(probably as root) and it'll take care of the nasty bits for you.

Greg

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