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PHP
Summary
UNIX Name: php
Website: http://www.php.net
Latest version: 4.4.4 - 2006-8-17
Description
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
Build Instructions
# ./extract_php4.sh
# ./build_php4.sh
This means the follow modules are not included:
--with-kerberos[=DIR] OPENSSL: Include Kerberos support
--with-zlib[=DIR] Include ZLIB support (requires zlib >= 1.0.9).
--enable-bcmath Enable bc style precision math functions.
--with-bz2[=DIR] Include BZip2 support
--enable-calendar Enable support for calendar conversion
--with-cpdflib[=DIR] Include cpdflib support (requires cpdflib >= 2).
--with-jpeg-dir[=DIR] CPDF: Set the path to libjpeg install prefix.
--with-tiff-dir[=DIR] CPDF: Set the path to libtiff install prefix.
--with-crack[=DIR] Include crack support.
--with-curl[=DIR] Include CURL support
--with-cyrus[=DIR] Include Cyrus IMAP support
--with-db Include old xDBM support (deprecated, use --enable-dba instead)
--enable-dba Build DBA with builtin modules
--enable-dbase Enable the bundled dbase library
--enable-dbx Enable dbx
--enable-dio Enable direct I/O support
--with-dom[=DIR] Include DOM support (requires libxml >= 2.4.14).
--with-zlib-dir[=DIR] DOMXML: Set the path to libz install prefix.
--with-dom-xslt[=DIR] DOMXML: Include DOM XSLT support (requires libxslt >= 1.0.18).
--with-dom-exslt[=DIR] DOMXML: Include DOM EXSLT support (requires libxslt >= 1.0.18).
--enable-exif Enable EXIF (metadata from images) support
--with-fbsql[=DIR] Include FrontBase support. DIR is the FrontBase base directory.
--with-fdftk[=DIR] Include FDF support.
--enable-filepro Enable the bundled read-only filePro support.
--with-fribidi[=DIR] Include FriBidi support (requires FriBidi >= 0.10.4).
--enable-ftp Enable FTP support
--with-gd[=DIR] Include GD support where DIR is GD install prefix.
--with-jpeg-dir[=DIR] GD: Set the path to libjpeg install prefix.
--with-png-dir[=DIR] GD: Set the path to libpng install prefix.
--with-zlib-dir[=DIR] GD: Set the path to libz install prefix.
--with-xpm-dir[=DIR] GD: Set the path to libXpm install prefix.
--with-ttf[=DIR] GD: Include FreeType 1.x support
--with-freetype-dir[=DIR] GD: Set the path to FreeType 2 install prefix.
--with-t1lib[=DIR] GD: Include T1lib support.
--enable-gd-native-ttf GD: Enable TrueType string function.
--enable-gd-jis-conv GD: Enable JIS-mapped Japanese font support.
--with-gettext[=DIR] Include GNU gettext support.
--with-gmp[=DIR] Include GNU MP support
--with-hwapi[=DIR] Include official Hyperwave API support
--with-hyperwave Include Hyperwave support
--with-iconv[=DIR] Include iconv support
--with-imap[=DIR] Include IMAP support.
--with-kerberos[=DIR] IMAP: Include Kerberos support.
--with-imap-ssl[=DIR] IMAP: Include SSL support.
--with-informix[=DIR] Include Informix support.
--with-ingres[=DIR] Include Ingres II support.
--with-interbase[=DIR] Include InterBase support.
--with-ircg Include IRCG support.
--with-java[=DIR] Include Java support.
--with-ldap[=DIR] Include LDAP support.
--enable-mbstring Enable multibyte string support.
--disable-mbregex MBSTRING: Disable multibyte regex support
--with-libmbfl[=DIR] MBSTRING: Use external libmbfl.
--with-mcal[=DIR] Include MCAL support.
--with-mcrypt[=DIR] Include mcrypt support.
--with-mcve[=DIR] Include MCVE support. libmcve >= 3.2.2 or libmonetra >= 4.0 required
--with-openssl-dir[=DIR] MCVE: openssl install prefix.
--with-mhash[=DIR] Include mhash support.
--with-mime-magic[=FILE]Include mime_magic support.
--with-ming[=DIR] Include MING support
--with-mnogosearch[=DIR]Include mnoGoSearch support.
--with-msession[=DIR] Include msession support
--with-msql[=DIR] Include mSQL support.
--with-mssql[=DIR] Include MSSQL-DB support.
--with-mysql[=DIR] Include MySQL support.
--with-ncurses[=DIR] Include ncurses support (CLI/CGI only).
--with-oci8[=DIR] Include Oracle (OCI8) support
--with-adabas[=DIR] Include Adabas D support.
--with-sapdb[=DIR] Include SAP DB support.
--with-solid[=DIR] Include Solid support.
--with-ibm-db2[=DIR] Include IBM DB2 support.
--with-empress[=DIR] Include Empress support.
--with-birdstep[=DIR] Include Birdstep support.
--with-iodbc[=DIR] Include iODBC support.
--with-esoob[=DIR] Include Easysoft OOB support.
--with-unixODBC[=DIR] Include unixODBC support.
--with-dbmaker[=DIR] Include DBMaker support.
--with-oracle[=DIR] Include Oracle-oci7 support.
--with-ovrimos[=DIR] Include Ovrimos SQL Server support.
--enable-pcntl Enable experimental pcntl support (CLI/CGI only)
--with-pdflib[=DIR] Include PDFlib support.
--with-pfpro[=DIR] Include Verisign Payflow Pro support.
--with-pgsql[=DIR] Include PostgreSQL support.
--with-pspell[=DIR] Include PSPELL support.
--with-qtdom Include QtDOM support (requires Qt >= 2.2.0).
--with-libedit[=DIR] Include libedit readline replacement (CLI/CGI only)
--with-readline[=DIR] Include readline support (CLI/CGI only)
--with-recode[=DIR] Include recode support.
--with-mm[=DIR] Include mm support for session storage
--enable-shmop Enable shmop support
--with-snmp[=DIR] Include SNMP support.
--with-openssl-dir[=DIR] SNMP: openssl install prefix.
--enable-ucd-snmp-hack Enable UCD SNMP hack
--enable-sockets Enable sockets support
--with-swf[=DIR] Include swf support
--with-sybase[=DIR] Include Sybase-DB support.
--with-sybase-ct[=DIR] Include Sybase-CT support.
--enable-sysvmsg Enable sysvmsg support
--enable-sysvsem Enable System V semaphore support.
--enable-sysvshm Enable the System V shared memory support.
--enable-wddx Enable WDDX support.
--with-expat-dir=<DIR> XML: external libexpat install dir
--with-xmlrpc[=DIR] Include XMLRPC-EPI support.
--with-expat-dir=<DIR> XMLRPC-EPI: libexpat dir for XMLRPC-EPI.
--with-iconv-dir=<DIR> XMLRPC-EPI: iconv dir for XMLRPC-EPI.
--enable-xslt Enable xslt support.
--with-xslt-sablot=<DIR> XSLT: Enable the sablotron backend.
--with-expat-dir=<DIR> XSLT: libexpat dir for Sablotron.
--with-iconv-dir=<DIR> XSLT: iconv dir for Sablotron.
--with-sablot-js=<DIR> XSLT: enable JavaScript support for Sablotron.
--with-yaz[=DIR] Include YAZ support (ANSI/NISO Z39.50).
--enable-yp Include YP support.
--with-zip[=DIR] Include ZIP support (requires zziplib >= 0.10.6).
--enable-memory-limit Compile with memory limit support.
--enable-zend-multibyte Compile with zend multibyte support.
And the following are ignored.
--disable-ctype Disable ctype functions
--disable-posix Disable POSIX-like functions
--disable-session Disable session support
--disable-tokenizer Disable tokenizer support
--disable-overload Disable user-space object overloading support.
--disable-xml Disable XML support using bundled expat lib
Size Details
FreeBSD 6.1, GCC 3.4.4, recommended compile options.
component size stripped size description
php 4.4.2 1,551,503 1,421,172 vanilla
1,229,003 1,109,748 i386
1,229,003 1,109,748 i486
1,233,099 1,113,844 pentium
1,233,099 1,113,844 pentium-mmx
1,499,339 1,380,084 pentiumpro
1,237,195 1,117,940 pentium2
1,499,595 1,380,340 celeron-mendocino
1,507,531 1,388,276 pentium3
1,507,531 1,388,276 pentium-m
1,487,988 1,368,756 pentium4
1,487,988 1,368,756 pentium4-prescott
1,487,988 1,368,756 pentium-nocona
1,233,099 1,113,844 via-c3
1,491,147 1,371,892 transmeta
1,413,323 1,294,068 k6
1,413,323 1,294,068 k6-2
1,413,323 1,294,068 k6-3
1,499,339 1,380,084 athlon
1,499,339 1,380,084 athlon-tbird
1,503,435 1,384,180 athlon-4
1,503,435 1,384,180 athlon-xp
1,503,435 1,384,180 athlon-mp
1,500,363 1,381,108 athlon64
1,500,363 1,381,108 opteron
1,500,363 1,381,108 turion64
Alternatives
php 5 : Version 5 of the PHP scripting language (1,798,832 bytes + 676 KB)
python : An interpreted object-oriented programming language (827,500 bytes + 33 MB)
perl 5 : Practical Extraction and Report Language (9,424 bytes + 31 MB)
ruby : An object-oriented interpreted scripting language (3,288 bytes + 6 MB)
sh : The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell (594,692 bytes)
c/c++ : GNU Compiler Collection
java : Standard Java Platform for running Java programs (21,602 bytes + 76 MB)
mono : An open source implementation of .NET Development Framework (1,428,324 bytes + 56 MB)
Justification
Its easy to use, comes with a variety of functions, and is relatively compact compared to Perl & Python. Java and mono are not practical for small platforms, and c/c++ are too low level languages for web interfaces. Similarly the overhead of shell scripting is not conducive on a slow platform.
Upgrades to PHP are inevitable for bug fixes and better Unicode support.
