Web Development

Link: http://pecl.php.net/package/runkit

runkit is a PHP Extension that offers you the posibility to replace, rename and remove functions and classes.

This extension is indeed as they say in the summary: For all those things you.... probably shouldn't have been doing anyway..... But it is also very handy.

The problem
- It is installing ok on PHP 5.1 but not on PHP 5.2 ... god only knows what will happen in 5.3.

Follow up:

For PHP 5.1
[root@radical ~]$ pecl install runkit
Failed to download pecl/runkit within preferred state "stable", latest release is version 0.9, stability "beta", use "channel://pecl.php.net/runkit-0.9" to install
Cannot initialize 'runkit', invalid or missing package file
Package "runkit" is not valid
install failed

Oh well... this is mainly a warning that the extension was not declared "stable" but only "beta" it has been in beta from 2006-06-06. Waaaay to long...
[root@radical ~]$ pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/runkit-0.9
That's about it for PHP 5.1.

For PHP 5.2
Note that in CVS the patch has already been applied.

You will need to download the package, extract, apply a patch then pack it back and run it again. So here we go.
[root@radical ~]$pecl download channel://pecl.php.net/runkit-0.9

Extract the files.
The file that needs a patch is "runkit_import.c". I always make a copy.
[root@radical ~]$cp runkit_import.c runkit_import.c.initial

The patch is simple.

- zend_unmangle_property_name(key, &cname, &pname);
+ zend_unmangle_property_name(key, key_len - 1, &cname, &pname);

As you see there is only one extra argument that you need to add for zend_unmangle_property_name.
The patch is from Bug #10174 Wont build against 5.2.1.

Now to continue using pecl. You will need to repackage the extension.
[root@radical ~]$tar -czpf runkit-0.9.patch-5.2.tgz -C runkit-0.9.patch-5.2 .
[root@radical ~]$pecl install runkit-0.9.patch-5.2.tgz

This is it. For me it worked fine even on a Fedora 6 version and a Debian.

Enjoy.