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I am going to be in London for the Dragon Age launch. Maybe this will hold me over on the plane:

Dragon Age Journeys.

Hello,

I have a bit of problem combining PHP and Perl language.

I am trying to pass Perl variables into PHP and keep getting this error

“PHP Fatal error: Class ‘Perl’ not found in /var/www/html/hidden.php on line 3
”
find attached copy of my script.

Regards,
Customer

Naturally, I thought the customer was crazy. Then I looked at the script:

$perl = new Perl();
$perl->require(“userexit.pl”);

I lol’ed and then search, it seems the Perl class is provided by the Zend people in the form of a php extension, which is, fortunately, in pecl.

Unfortunately, this package seems to be broken

( ~ ) pecl install perl
Package “perl” Version “1.0.0″ does not have REST xml available
install failed

I did some searching and found an ‘open’ bug report:
16807

Rather than did too deep, I decided to just install the module manually for the customer.

# wget http://pecl.php.net/get/perl-1.0.0.tgz
# tar xzfv perl-1.0.0.tgz
# cd perl-1.0.0
# phpize
# ./configure
# make
# make install

Now edit your php.ini to include:

extension=perl.so

Or on Red Hat/Fedora, simply:

echo “extension=perl.so” > /etc/php.d/perl.ini

Don’t forget to restart apache.

viola:

# php -v ; php -m | grep perl
PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Feb 26 2009 07:01:12)
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies
perl

As always, be careful when installing unmanaged modules. Future updates to php may introduce instability when depending modules are not rebuilt with the new symbol table.

Happy Hacking.

Killed the BC (Black Claw) boss in Aion today. The BC quests are completed in the first ‘group only’  areas in the game. The areas are parlous and contain elite mobs that require diverse skill sets and team work. Luckily, Vaizel seems to have an abundance of good people to party with.

It is bad, really bad.

Gamespot preview focusing on mages, my default RPG class.

Dragon Age Updated Preview – Rage of Mages – PC Previews at GameSpot.

Open Source networking. They provide Xen and VMware Images. I am going to play around with this a bit and blog about my experience. Why? Because it looks like I am working.

Vyatta – Community Software Download.

Pretty rad high level aion pvp. Can’t wait to get to the abyss.

YouTube – AION – PVP AT TOWER ABYSS elishia + paradise.