phpweb and autotool woes

Justus Piater <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.refdb.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi -

I've installed refdb-0.9.7 from source and started to play with the
PHP interface, and it gladly accepts any bogus logins and nonexistent
databases without complaining. Before digging into the code, I noticed
that the PHP code has evolved quite a bit since the latest release, so
I decided to try refdb-svn. However, various combinations of different
versions of the autotools failed for different reasons.

- Which versions of the autotools should I use?

- I suggest you hard-code the proper versions inside the refdb-svn
  script.

- Can I simply move the phpweb tree from subversion into the 0.9.7
  release tree, and configure, make, install?

- It would also be useful to provide snapshot-tarballs to give easy
  access to the latest code without having to run the autotools.

About phpweb: It requires a rather specific php.ini setup for session
handling. For example, it requires register_globals to be On, which is
against the recommendations. Other settings may clash with
requirements by other sites on the same server. What would it take to
remove these restrictive session-handling requirements
(register_globals, cookies, auto_start)?

Thanks,
Justus

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Justus H. Piater, Ph.D.         http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~piater/
Institut Montefiore, B28        Phone: +32-4-366-2279
Université de Liège, Belgium    Fax:   +32-4-366-2620

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