[SOLVED] php 4.3.4 on apache 2.0.61 extends problem

[arius25]

Hello,

 

I have to support an application written using php4 syntax and object model. It runs on php 4.2.2 and it was not compiled with xslt (expat/Sablot) extensions. I need these modules so I compiled them and then php4.3.4 on an apache2.0.61 web server (php4.2.2 on apache2.x refused to compile).

 

I verified that httpd.conf loads the php4 module and added the proper paths to the classes in the include_path parameter in php.ini (this file is also in the proper location). I verified all these by calling phpinfo.php from a browser.

 

The problem is this: one of the database classes cannot find the class it extends. The parent class is called /myapp1/code/MatrixSQL.php and its parent is /myapp2/matrix/MatrixDB.inc (myapp1,2 are not the real paths). Both /myapp1/code and /myapp2 are in the "include_path" and the class definition is:

  class MatrixSQL extends matrix_MatrixDB

 

There are no errors at apache's startup but whenever I go to the application in a browser I get:

Fatal error: Class matrixsql: Cannot inherit from undefined class matrix_matrixdb in /myapp1/code/MatrixSQL.php on line 12

 

In another class I get:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /myapp1/code/matrixsql.php on line 52

(this is, I believe, because of a null instance)

 

Can anyone shed some light into this problem? Initially I thought it was easy, that it was a "classpath" problem but no matter how I changed the include_path variable (I added all sort of combinations) it kept getting me those errors back. Any hint will be hugely appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Marius

[arius25]

Sorry, it was a .inc file the application was not seeing. The problem was *very much* related to my application.

 

Thanks to all who read my posting.

Marius