Cannot instantiate non-existent class: swfshape

OK, since my initial post I have discovered this webpage:

http://ming.sourceforge.net/install.html

Which provides a link for downloading a pre-compiled php_ming.so file.

Since the source for this .so file won't compile, I decided to try that 
instead.

With "ming.h" now in /usr/include
and "libming.so" now in /usr/lib
and "php_ming.so" now in /usr/lib/php4
and "extension=php_ming.so" no in /etc/php.ini
and "Apache w/ PHP" stopped and restarted (as module, not CGI)...

...I am able to browse PHP scripts with ming-specific code in them but 
they don't do anything.

The following:

<?php

     echo("<p>MING-TEST-1.PHP START</p>");
     $s = new SWFShape();
     echo($s);
     $s->setLine(20, 0xff, 0, 0);
     $s->drawLineTo(400, 0);
     $s->drawLineTo(400, 400);
     $s->drawLineTo(0, 400);
     $s->drawLineTo(0, 0);
     echo("<p>MING-TEST-1.PHP STOP</p>");

?>

yields only the following in my browser window:

MING-TEST-1.PHP START

Object

MING-TEST-1.PHP STOP

The fact that "echo($s);" results in the word "Object" being displayed 
proves to me that I now am able to instantiate the SWFShape class but 
why does nothing instead of something occur now?

Myke

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