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By ElGigi on May 14, 2009 | Reply

Nice job .

By Marcos Neves on May 19, 2009 | Reply

Please, add it to oldstable, too.

Thanks

By James on May 20, 2009 | Reply

Hi Guillaume,

thanks for your packages – they’re real timesavers. I recently worked on a mass-mail script (newsletter), and while inspecting the headers of a resulting mail I’ve found that you’ve included choon.net’s PHP Mail Header Patch for the `mail` function. This patch adds a X-PHP-Script header like:

X-PHP-Script: http://www.example.com/~user/testapp/send-mail.php for 10.0.0.1

…to a message sent thru the `mail` function.

I believe we can agree: this behaviour is useful for any public PHP script like in forum software and welcome in 95% of the cases. However, in newsletter-like situations I don’t want to reveal what software was used to create the message nor I want details about the originating server revealed — for security reasons. The patch doesn’t provide configuration means via php.ini or the like. So I see two options:

- patch the patch to make it configurable, or

- workaround the problem by calling:
`unset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);` just before calling the `mail` function. This workaround is provided in the patch source itself:

+ if (zend_hash_find(Z_ARRVAL_PP(server), “REMOTE_ADDR”, sizeof(“REMOTE_ADDR”), (void **) &remote_addr) == FAILURE)
+ break;

I hope this helps anyone solve the problem outlined above. Now I fear that Choon will patch the patch to “fix” this
But please, Choon, if you read this, provide a php.ini option.

Best regards
James

By Guillaume Plessis on May 22, 2009 | Reply

@James : Fortunately, I do not use the vanilla patch, I made some changes to it and introduced an ini parameter “mail_extra_headers”, that you can set to off to disable the additional headers.

By Stephan Wentz on Jun 9, 2009 | Reply

Are the apache module and cli built differently? Just installed 5.3RC2 from dotdeb, phpinfo() gives me different modules for both.

For example in the apache module MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND isn’t defined – and the mysqlnd module is available.

Inside cli MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND IS defined, but the mysqlnd module is missing.

By Guillaume Plessis on Jun 9, 2009 | Reply

The Apache2, CLI and CGI flavours have a common configuration, but are a bit different :
- all the php5-* packages are built during the Apache build
- then the CLI and CGI flavours do not need php5-* related configuration options, especially the mysql ones

For more information, fetch the source package, uncompress it and take a look at debian/rules

By Stephan Wentz on Jun 9, 2009 | Reply

Uhh, I don’t know if this relates to my original problem

With the 5.3RC2 libapache module for example Zend Frameworks Zend_Db breaks – it can’t find the constant MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND.
I was using my own compiled 5.3RC2 at first, and there it worked.

By Jason Morehouse on Jun 10, 2009 | Reply

Has anyone been able to get this working with lighttp / fastcgi?

After upgrading, I just get a plan text version of the php source code when browsing the website.

By Jason Morehouse on Jun 10, 2009 | Reply

.. actually I get this with apache2 mod-php5 as well, on a clean box. WTF.

By Gabriel Sobrinho on Jun 12, 2009 | Reply

Hello,

Thanks for this packages, saved my life.

I’m having a trouble with pecl which not runs. See the error:

debian:/home/gabriel# pecl
/usr/local/bin/pecl: line 28: /usr/local/bin/php: file not found
/usr/local/bin/pecl: line 28: exec: /usr/local/bin/php: cannot execute: file not found
debian:/home/gabriel#

I have the same error on local and on my remote server (also debian lenny).

How do I fix it?

By Guillaume Plessis on Jun 13, 2009 | Reply

@Gabriel :
Are you sure you’re using Dotdeb’s pecl?
echo $PATH
which pecl
pecl config-show
which php

Did you install php5-cli?

By Benjamin Kudria on Jun 16, 2009 | Reply

Would it be possible to compile the MDB2 extension as well? Or, is it possible to do it myself?

By Guillaume Plessis on Jun 16, 2009 | Reply

MDB2 is not an extension, it’s a PEAR class. You can install it by launching “pear install …” after installing php-pear.

By Gerry H on Jun 23, 2009 | Reply

Works great thanks guys

By Randall Wiggins on Jun 24, 2009 | Reply

It is not possible to hide the IP address of the server that sent the email, and in addition to that, the CANSPAM law has specific provisions to not do so as well as other things like opt-out links etc.

By Guillaume Plessis on Jun 24, 2009 | Reply

@Randall Wiggins : set the mail_extra_headers ini variable to off.

By Randall Wiggins on Jun 26, 2009 | Reply

@Guillaume Plessis: You will still expose the IP address of the server in the mail headers of the server executing the script unless the SMTP relay strips it out like gmail does.

By Guillaume Plessis on Jun 26, 2009 | Reply

@Randall Wiggins : Sorry, but you would have to trick and configure your mailserver to do so.