[documentation] need help with PDO requirement

[TechnoSophos]

Did you try the install and it failed already, or are you just trying
to check everything before trying the install?

Sorry, I'm not totally understanding.

Matt

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:03 AM, adept digital
evolution<techlists at ade.pt> wrote:
> On 08-21-2009 10:11 AM, TechnoSophos wrote:
>>>
>>> I honestly think this new PDO requirement will send 99% of the general
>>> public packing (i.e., looking for something to use besides Drupal).
>>>
>>
>> PDO should be included with PHP in just about every normal PHP5
>> distribution. Hopefully, it will not be an issue for 99% of the
>> general public.
>>
>
> Thanks for answering Matt!
>
> Maybe pdo is included by on my server there were no pdo drivers installed
> when I did phpinfo()
>
> I think this is going to be the case on 99% of the public's servers,
> considering that most of us are only equipped to use CPanel or Plesk or
> Ensim or the like.
>
>
> If it *is* true that PDO is included with PHP on all servers, we should
> definitely take the info on PDO out of the D7 installation guide that is
> shaping up, and perhaps just link to a informational page that is external
> to the guide itself. Because the page is there and I am told it is a
> requirement, I just spent 2 hours of my life asking questions, researching
> on the web, and went and put all sorts of who-knows-what all over my server,
> only to find out that I probably did not need to?
>
>
> Can someone please say how exactly one can verify before installing D7 (or
> whether it is really necessary *before* installing) whether one has the PDO
> extension enabled for the database one will be using??
>
> This needs to become part of the installation guide, your answer will really
> help. What can the average end-user check to receive confirmation that, 'Oh,
> OK, according to this installation guide I don't have to worry about PDO
> because I see "____________________________" on my phpinfo() page'
>
> What would fill in that blank?
>
>
>> CentOS and RHEL may be exceptions, because they do not come with PHP
>> 5.2 out of the box. (They're a few years behind on that.) So if your
>> server is running PHP < 5.2, you need to look for instructions on
>> updating *PHP*, not *PDO*.
>>
>
>
> root at server1 [~]# php --version
> PHP 5.2.8 (cli) (built: Feb 21 2009 20:20:11)
> Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
> Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies
>
>
> Yet, there was nothing about any PDO extensions in my phpinfo() and the only
> reference at all to PDO was:
>>
>> '--disable-pdo'
>>
>> Basically, the above tells you what flags were set BEFORE the PHP
>> source code was compiled. To change a configure flag, you basically
>> need to get the source code and start from scratch. My guess is that
>> you do not want to do that (nor should you need to).
>>
>
> no, on my CPanel server I do not want to do that. I guess I could get
> another VPS for $5/month that has only CentOS and not WHM/CPanel installed
> on it, BUT THIS IS NOT MY JOB (as interesting as all this is in a perverse
> sort of way)
>
>> Check your PHP version and make sure it is high enough to meet D7's
>> minimal requirements. That's probably the best way to start.
>>
>
>
> I have set my WebHostManager (WHM) update preferences to "stable" (by
> default it's set to "release") so everything is pretty much up to date.
>
> I'm just afraid that if I do not have PDO enabled my whole installation will
> blow up when I run the install script.
>
>
> Alll IIII caaannn saaayyyy is,
>
> Drupal is certainly not for the general public. Not installing Drupal,
> anyhow. I'm sorry to say this if folks here think that Drupal is really
> something that even 50% of the general public could get installed on their
> own web server for their own small business or organization or personal blog
> or anything. Won't happen.
>
> :-(
>
> thanks again, Matt, I'm still hanging in here, by a slim thread but still
> hanging in. I'll be very sad if I have to dump my own Drupal site and go
> back to Dreamweaver, but as with many folks I am not financed to hire
> someone with the sort of knowledge that's required to install & maintain
> Drupal's back end....
>
> kazar
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