Smarty in php.ini Include

[Greg Taylor]

Binary package hint: smarty

Upon installing the latest Smarty package with the standard PHP5/MySQL5 that come with Dapper, I found that I had to manually add the /usr/share/php/smarty directory to my php.ini. It'd be really nice if it automatically did this for you so you don't have less experienced admins puzzling over why it finished the setup with PEAR but didn't add the smarty dir to the include path.

[dim (dim-tapoueh)]

# http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.4
# The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of any package,
# including the one the scripts belong to.
tags 290176 +wontfix

thank
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Dimitri.
http://dim.tapoueh.org

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[Greg Taylor (gtaylor)]

Binary package hint: smarty

Upon installing the latest Smarty package with the standard PHP5/MySQL5 that come with Dapper, I found that I had to manually add the /usr/share/php/smarty directory to my php.ini. It'd be really nice if it automatically did this for you so you don't have less experienced admins puzzling over why it finished the setup with PEAR but didn't add the smarty dir to the include path.

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

I'm not sure of the benefit of running Krusader under Gnome but I have uploaded a fix for this. Thank you.

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

Ack, sorry, wrong bug, ignore previous comment.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

I'm rejecting this bug, as it's marked wontfix in Debian, with the a note that smarty shouldn't modify php.ini directly, as it is a conffile. It may be possible to do something with /etc/php5/conf.d/: please reopen the bug if a solution along those lines is prepared. Please note that using "require("smarty/Smarty.class.php");" in your code should accomplish the goal.

[Chet Gray (chetgray)]

I'm using a separate ini file in /etc/php5/conf.d/ to accomplish this.

/etc/php5/conf.d/smarty.ini:
[Smarty]
include_path = ${include_path} ":/usr/share/php/Smarty"

That's all.

Of course, the ${variable} syntax in PHP configuration files has apparently only been possible since PHP 5.1.0 (see http://us.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php), and the smarty package says it's fine with php4.

[Chet Gray (chetgray)]

I'm reopening as confirmed.

We could have smarty put a config file in the php conf.d as I described in my previous comment;

[Chet Gray (chetgray)]

I've just realized that my fix only works if include_path has already been set in php.ini. It seems that if include_path has not been explicitly set before conf.d/smarty.ini is included it causes a segfault.

[Olivier Berger (olivierberger)]

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497453 for my report on the include_path initialisation / concatenation segfault problem.

[Olivier Berger (olivierberger)]

# There's a smarter way to do that
tags 290176 - wontfix
thanks

As explained in companion ticket in Ubuntu (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smarty/+bug/44404) there's a simple way to do so by adding a .ini file in the conf.d dir of PHP5 (at least starting with PHP5.1, I think).

Still it won't be possible though until bug #497453 is fixed.

Hope this helps.

P.S.: wasn't tested for Samrty but for Zend framework (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zend-framework/+bug/220719).

Best regards,

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:38:52PM +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> # http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.4
> # The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of any package,
> # including the one the scripts belong to.
> tags 290176 +wontfix
>
> thank
> --
> Dimitri.
> http://dim.tapoueh.org
>
> « Bon, puisque tout le monde a oublié son maillot, voilà ce que je vous
> propose... »
> -- Moïse
>
>