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sr #104067: PEAR-DB and PHPgw's nameclash on the class DB.

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sun 03 Apr 2005 03:05:42 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Feature Request Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Open/Closed:  Open
Operating System:  GNU/Linux

Sun 03 Apr 2005 11:43:43 PM UTC, comment #1: 

We won't be making this change.  There are several reasons for this.

We only support the use of 1 abstraction library, for 16 it is a modded version of phpLib for 18+ it will be ADOdb with a wrapper.

PEAR DB is released under the PHP License and so is not GPL compatiable, and I have little interest in making major changes to suport non GPL compatiable code.

We use a modified versioon of phpLib's DB abstraction library, they had the namespace first

I would never make a change like this in stable, even if the first 3 problems didn't exist.

I suggest you use the supported abstraction libraries for your app.

Cheers

Dave Hall (aka skwashd)
API Coordinator

PS - I had written most of this before I realised I wasn't logged in.

 Anonymous
Sun 03 Apr 2005 03:05:42 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,

I'm creating some custom modules for PHP-groupware and I like to use PEAR-DB in my modules.

But a nameclash between PEAR-DB and PHPgw's DB-class makes this very difficult. (PHPgw on my Debian terminates on loading PEAR-DB with: "Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class db in /usr/share/php/DB.php on line 271") I've seen many people complain about this problem in the newsgroups, but I've not seen any sollution for PHP-groupware so far.

After some research, I fixed this problem for myself by the following steps:

-rename [path_to_phpgw]/phpgwapi/inc/class.db.inc.php
 to     [path_to_phpgw]/phpgwapi/inc/class.db_phpgw.inc.php

-change the class name 'db' to 'db_phpgw' at least in the following files:
  [path_to_phpgw]/phpgwapi/inc/class.db_mysql.inc.php
  [path_to_phpgw]/phpgwapi/inc/class.db_pgsql.inc.php
  [path_to_phpgw]/phpgwapi/inc/class.db_oracle.inc.php
  [path_to_phpgw]/phpgwapi/inc/class.db_mysql.inc.php
  [path_to_phpgw]/phpgwapi/inc/class.db_sapdb.inc.php
  [path_to_phpgw]/phpgwapi/inc/class.db_[db_you_actually_use].inc.php

-Replace "CreateObject('phpgwapi.db')" with "CreateObject('phpgwapi.db_phpgw')"
 in the following files:
   phpgwapi/inc/class.setup.inc.php
   phpgwapi/inc/functions.inc.php

This is a very fundamental change, but I think the impact in PHPgroupware should not be too big, since only the framework and the setup scripts are supposed to create instances of PHPgroupware's db class. And personally I believe supporting PEAR-DB in the modules is worth this change.

My sollution only lasts until I upgrade my phpgroupware installation (when files mentioned above are overwritten), so I hope my sollution can help in finding a more permanent sollution for all people who build custom phpgroupware modules.

I'm currently using 'phpGroupWare API version 0.9.16.005' on Debian Unstable.

Regards,
Peter van der Meer

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