[Typo3-linux] Unable to edit quickstart: xml_parser_create() undefined

[Franz Holzinger]

Hello Robert Heller,

> I figured this out.  Took me a while.
> 
> i had everything working just hunky dorey on a Mandrake 9.1 system and decided to upgrade the server to 10.1 Official.  Needless to say, it wasn't exactly smooth.
I have the same problem with the latest Mandriva 2006 0.5 x86_64 and PHP5.

> 
> Anyway, this is your problem.
> 
> After doing the upgrade, and usig urpmi to install all of the updates (urpmi --autoselect --update) with the number of times around that block...I found that php was not running the xml.so extension which is where the xml_parser_create() function resides.
> 
> To fix the problem you need to do 2 things:
> 
> a.  cd to the /etc/php.d directory, which is where Mandrake ? in their wisdom have decided to place some of the configuration instructions from /etc/php.ini.  Once there, type in:
> ln -s ../php/52_xml.ini .
> This will create a symbolic link so that php will load the xml.so extension
> 
What are you linking to 52_xml.ini here? Where does this come from?

[root at localhost php.d]# ls -l
total 52
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   21 jun  2 16:23 12_ctype.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   19 jun  2 16:27 22_ftp.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   18 jun  2 16:27 23_gd.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   23 jun  2 16:27 24_gettext.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1456 jun  2 16:35 36_mysql.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   20 jun  2 16:36 41_pcre.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   21 jun  2 16:36 43_posix.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 5192 jun  2 16:38 47_session.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   23 jun  2 16:39 57_sysvsem.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   23 jun  2 16:39 58_sysvshm.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   25 jun  2 16:40 60_tokenizer.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   18 jun  2 16:41 65_yp.ini


Franz