Requirements
To install this extension on Gentoo Linux just run the package manager:
emerge -q pecl-http
and add the extension into php.ini
extension=http.so ( do not have the php_ prefix )
Installation/Configuration
Installation
This » PECL extension is not bundled with PHP.
Information for installing this PECL extension may be found in the manual chapter titled Installation of PECL extensions. Additional information such as new releases, downloads, source files, maintainer information, and a CHANGELOG, can be located here: » http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http.
Note: The official name of this extension is pecl_http.
A DLL for this PECL extension is currently unavailable. See also the building on Windows section.
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User Contributed Notes
Installing the HTTP extension
sumariva at gmail dot com
17-Nov-2011 08:00
psymatix at gmail dot com
27-Jul-2011 12:44
To install libmagic use:
apt-get install libmagic-dev INSTEAD of apt-get install libmagic
Anonymous
20-Jul-2011 11:19
On Fedora, I had to do 'yum install curl-devel' to avoid missing curl.h error.
jjrp78 at yahoo dot com
25-Oct-2010 07:43
in Ubuntu 10.10 I had to create this file:
/etc/php5/conf.d/http.ini
and add this line:
extension=http.so
srimalj at gmail dot com
28-Mar-2008 08:55
Just to add to the above.
I had to install the following in Ubuntu 7.10 .
(otherwise I get a message saying missing curl.h)
# apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev
Hope this helps someone the trouble i went into, just to get the http_post_fields function working
Regs
Srimal.
Mohd Azhar bin Ariffin
25-Feb-2008 03:20
The installation guideline is very insufficient. I've installed for Debian lenny/sid with the following step;
apt-get install php5-dev (to enable pecl command)
apt-get install libcurl3 (to get curl support)
apt-get install libmagic
and
pecl install pecl_http
pecl will download and compile but before that just follow the prompt. If the respective development library is not available in your system, the compilation will abort.
After pecl_http got install, copy /usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/http.so to /usr/lib/apache2/modules and restart apache
Hopefully this will help others from facing the same hassle for quite sometime.
Jean-Lou Dupont
07-Jan-2008 12:24
Don't forget to copy ''http.so'' in the php/modules directory and add ''extension=http.so'' to php.ini.
Christian9997
15-Jun-2007 07:09
The "Installation requirements on Windows" are confusing:
If you are a Windows user you need to have the php_curl.dll extension installed before being able to install the php_http.dll extension.