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Unable to load Phalcon module in PHP 7

Hi Phalconites,

I have been trying to install phalcon under PHP 7 without success.

The install runs fine, however when i try to start php-fpm i receive the following error:

> undefined symbol: zend_std_call_user_call in Unknown on line 0

I am very new to Phalcon and would appreciate any assistance available.

Thanks



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give us more detail about your system envirovment



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How did you install it ? You need to use latests zephir and phalcon 2.1.x repository. You sure you have php7 dev package ?



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Thanks for the response.

So the installation steps are below:

  • Installed NGINX
  • Installed php-fpm 5.6
  • Installed php-fpm 7.1
  • git clone phalcon and run ./install
  • copied generated phalcon.so files to both php 5.6 and 7.1 directories
  • started both php-fpm 5.6 and 7.1
  • upon starting php-fpm 5.6, i got the notice message "undefined symbol: php_pdo_get_dbh_ce in Unknown on line 0", but when looking through phpinfo, the module was loaded
  • when starting php-fpm 7.1 i get the message "undefined symbol: zend_std_call_user_call in Unknown on line 0"
  • ran command 'yum install re2c php-json php-dev libpcre3-dev'. libpcre3-dev was not found but the below steps still processed successfully (could be an issue)
  • i then git cloned zephir, ran install successfully
  • then went to the cphalcon directory and ran the command 'git checkout 2.1.x'
  • then ran command 'zephir build --zendEngine=3'

I think the steps I am missing are:

  • after running 'zephir build --zendEngine=3' and the process is completed, I am not sure where the newly generated library files are.
  • I installed php-dev which used version 5.6. Seeing that both php 5.6 and 7.1 is installed, is there a way to create the library files for each version?
  • I have since installed php71-php-devel. How can I build the phalcon library using this version?

A quick background on why i have done the install this way, is that i am trying to test the difference in performance between php 5.6 and 7.1 using Phalcon.

Based on this I can put a case forward for using Phalcon for our future/existing projects and also explore upgrading to PHP 7.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks



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edited Jun '16

You need to build phalcon seperate for php 5.6 and php 7.1, the same extension can't work for both versions, first try to write php -v and check on which version you currently are. If you are on php 7 then you just need use zephir for building it and phalcon 2.1.x

Zephir build will automatically install extnesion to php lib folder.

upon starting php-fpm 5.6, i got the notice message "undefined symbol: phppdogetdbhce in Unknown on line 0", but when looking through phpinfo, the module was loaded

You need to load pdo BEFORE phalcon in this case.

when starting php-fpm 7.1 i get the message "undefined symbol: zendstdcallusercall in Unknown on line 0"

Here you have error beacause you copied phalcon from php 5.6 to php 7.1

If you want have both php versions at once then i would recommend just using phpbrew https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew



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Ok, so I got this working.

Thanks a lot Wojciech, PHPBrew is exactly what i needed.

This is what i did:

  • removed all versions of php
  • re-installed php 5.6
  • installed phpbrew
  • install php 5.6 and 7.0 using phpbrew
  • switched to the php 5.6 instance within phpbrew using 'phpbrew switch php-5.6.22'
  • went to the cphalcon folder and ran the command './install'. This created the phalcon.so file and copied it to the folder for the 5.6 instance
  • then switched to the php 7.0 instance within phpbrew using 'phpbrew switch php-7.0.7'
  • in the cphalcon directory ran 'git checkout 2.1.x'
  • then i ran command 'zephir fullclean' and then 'zephir install'
  • This created the phalcon.so file and copied it to the folder for the 7.0 instance
  • for both 5.6 and 7.0, I added 'extension=phalcon.so' to the php.ini file
  • restarted php-fpm for both 5.6 and 7.0
  • and voila

i installed phalcon-devtools after and created a project called 'myphalcon1', but when i browsed to the site in my browser got the error 'Mod-rewrite not enabled'. I used the below in the nginx file to fix:

location @phalcon {
    rewrite ^/myphalcon1/public(.+)$ /myphalcon1/public/index.php?_url=$1 last;
}

location /myphalcon1/ {
    index index.php;
    if ($uri !~ ^/myphalcon1/public) {
        rewrite ^/myphalcon1(.*)$ /myphalcon1/public$1;
    }
    try_files $uri $uri/ @phalcon;
}

maybe some light can be shed on the NGINX part by the pros here

Thanks all for the help