New TeeChart for PHP install

[Yeray]

Hi Dan,

I've been talking with the people from the TeeChart for PHP and clarified to me an important tip:
The eval version of TeeChart for PHP sources have been obfuscated so that the nusphere loaders are needed to use them. In my testing process, I've used the sources without obfuscation so here it was my mistake (one more in my list). So at this point my deductions are:

- Using TeeChart for PHP with sources, it should work as described in the instructions, recompiling the php and without using the loaders.
- Using TeeChart for PHP eval, with obfuscated sources, phpexpress loaders are needed, but adding them in the php.ini causes the GD library not to be loaded successfully, so I'm not able to run teechart either.

I'll ask that to nushphere guys and I'll back to you asap.

[streamfoundry]

Yeray - got this official answer from NuSphere:

"Dear Dan,
Sorry, but we don't support mainframe - we support many other platforms such as Windows, Linux on x86 CPU (32 and 64 bit), FreeBsd, Mac OS, Solaris OS.
Best regards,
Sergey

Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: KOE-897272
Department: Support
Status: Open "

They did follow-up with another email saying they might be able to provide a loader if we could promise some number of new NuCoder licenses and if we could provide our platform to them for the long term. No can do either. If anything, I would think Steema might be able to make the request for a z-hardware loader in support of your current NuCoder license.

Thanks,

Dan St.Cyr
StreamFoundry, Inc.

[Yeray]

Hi Dan,

I've found that I was changing the extensions dir to load nusphere extension and then the gd.so and pdo.so couldn't be loaded.

Here there are the corrected instructions:

How-To Install TeeChart for PHP without sources (obfuscated) in Ubuntu 9.10.
This includes both the evaluation and the binary versions. Both them need nusphere loaders.

• - Fresh install Ubuntu 9.10
  - Install php5 and sun-java6-jre through synaptic
  - Update everything through update manager
  
  - Prepare TeeChart. Supposing that you have the downloaded file from the web in your user Downloads folder:

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  sudo mkdir /var/www/TeeChartForPHP
  sudo mv Downloads/TeeChartPHP1.zip /var/www/TeeChartForPHP/
  cd /var/www/TeeChartForPHP/
  sudo unzip TeeChartPHP1.zip
  java -jar TeeChart.Installer.jar
  sudo mkdir /var/www/TeeChartForPHP/sources
  cd
  sudo mv sources.zip /var/www/TeeChartForPHP/sources/
  cd /var/www/TeeChartForPHP/sources
  sudo unzip sources.zip
  sudo mv themes/y2009.php themes/Y2009.php

  - Prepare nusphere loaders. Unzip and untar the loaders according to your architecture and system. Then, place them together with the gd.so and pdo.so and load all them. For example:

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  sudo mkdir /var/www/extensions
  sudo mv phpexpress-php-5.2.so /var/www/extensions/

  - Edit the php.ini file to load the phpexpress extensions:

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     sudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

    • - At line 508: extension_dir = "/var/www/extensions/"
      - At line 621: extension=phpexpress-php-5.2.so
  - Copy the gd.so and pdo.so into the same place in order to continue loading them too:

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  sudo cp /usr/lib/php5/20060612+lfs/* /var/www/extensions/

  - Now we have to recompile php5 as explained here to solve GD library problems. Note that doing that, you'll generate ans install a .deb. This will cause Synaptics to find some updates. If you update your system including php5-gd package, you'll have to reinstall your .deb again running again the last command in this section:

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  sudo apt-get install build-essential debhelper fakeroot
  cd /usr/src
  sudo apt-get source php5
  sudo apt-get build-dep php5
  cd php5-5.2.10.dfsg.1
  sudo gedit debian/rules

  • at line 220: --with-gd=shared --enable-gd-native-ttf \

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  sudo dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot (this can take a while, be patient)
  cd ..
  sudo dpkg -i php5-gd_5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.1_i386.deb
  sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

How-To Install TeeChart for PHP with sources (not obfuscated) in Ubuntu 9.10.

• - Fresh install Ubuntu 9.10
  - Install php5 and sun-java6-jre through synaptic
  - Update everything through update manager
  
  - Prepare TeeChart. Supposing that you have the downloaded file from the web in your user Downloads folder:

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  sudo mkdir /var/www/TeeChartForPHP
  sudo mv Downloads/TeeChartPHP1.zip /var/www/TeeChartForPHP/
  cd /var/www/TeeChartForPHP/
  sudo unzip TeeChartPHP1_with_Sources.zip
  java -jar TeeChart.SourcesInstaller.jar
  sudo mkdir /var/www/TeeChartForPHP/sources
  cd
  sudo mv sources.zip /var/www/TeeChartForPHP/sources/
  cd /var/www/TeeChartForPHP/sources
  sudo unzip sources.zip
  sudo mv themes/y2009.php themes/Y2009.php

  - Now we have to recompile php5 as explained here to solve GD library problems. Note that doing that, you'll generate ans install a .deb. This will cause Synaptics to find some updates. If you update your system including php5-gd package, you'll have to reinstall your .deb again running again the last command in this section:

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  sudo apt-get install build-essential debhelper fakeroot
  cd /usr/src
  sudo apt-get source php5
  sudo apt-get build-dep php5
  cd php5-5.2.10.dfsg.1
  sudo gedit debian/rules

  • at line 220: --with-gd=shared --enable-gd-native-ttf \

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  sudo dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot (this can take a while, be patient)
  cd ..
  sudo dpkg -i php5-gd_5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.1_i386.deb
  sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

At this point you should be able to open a browser and call http://localhost/a.php:

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<?php

phpinfo();

require_once "/var/www/TeeChartForPHP/sources/TChart.php";
$chart1 = new TChart(500,300);
$bar = new Bar($chart1->getChart());
$bar->fillSampleValues(5);
$bar->setColorEach(true);

$chart1->render("chart1.png");
$rand=rand();
print '<font face="Verdana" size="2">Themes Demo<p>';
print '<img src="chart1.png?rand='.$rand.'">';

?>

[streamfoundry]

Yeray - via some emails with Dmitri Dmitrienko at NuSphere, they've told us that they don't support the IBM mainframe platform and, therefore, do not plan to provide a PhpExpress loader. Their rationale is that they don't see any monetary reason to extend PhpExpress support to the mainframe. Unfortunately, this leaves me no choice but to suspend looking at TeeChart for PHP (unless Steema can convince them otherwise!).

Thanks,

Dan St.Cyr
StreamFoundry, Inc.

[Yeray]

Hi Dan,

We'll discuss options here and we'll contact you via email to see if we can work towards a solution.