PL/php

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h1. PL/php

Welcome to the PL/php site. PL/php is a procedural language add-on for PostgreSQL, which means you can define PHP functions that run inside a PostgreSQL server.

h2. Obtaining PL/php

Please see the [[Downloads]] page. Or you can get the latest sources using anonymous svn access:

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svn checkout https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/plphp/repo/trunk

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h2. Documentation

Please see the [[InstallDocs|PL/php Installation procedure]].

Before you can use PL/php, you need to [[CreateLang|create the language]] in the database  (In PostgreSQL 80 you need [[wikiCreateLang80 these instructions instead]]).

Usage Documentation: [[Documentation|PL/php User Guide]]

h3. Contributed Documentation

Ribamar Sousa has translated this documentation to Portuguese: http://pg.ribafs.net/content/view/29/30/

Ribamar Sousa has also written a tutorial about installing PL/php on Ubuntu and [[PostgreSQL]] 8.3 (in Portuguese):

http://pg.ribafs.net/content/view/27/30/

Santiago Zárate has documented the installation for Ubuntu in Spanish:

http://blog.santiago.zarate.net.ve/archives/1-Como-instalar-plphp-en-ubuntu-7.04-y-7.10

h2. Support

You can join the mailing list: http://lists.commandprompt.com/mailman/listinfo/plphp

Or you can reach us on Freenode at the *#plphp* channel.

h2. Release History

*10/15/2007*

PL/php 1.3.5 Beta1 addresses PostgreSQL 8.3 compatibility and named parameters.

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PL/php 1.3.3 addresses the previous phpinfo() issue as well as a bunch of others, particulary improper handling of columns with numeric names, random backend crashes etc. This is the first PL/php version with PostgreSQL 8.2 support, and autoconf/configure scripts replacing the need to edit the project's Makefile directly. It still has issues with threaded PHP build, so I recommend not using --enable-maintainer-zts when configuring your PHP library. Except for this it successfully passed all regression tests with !PostgreSQL 8.2 and PHP 5.

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PL/php 1.3 was released on 2006-07-14.  It is virtually identical to 1.2.  There is a bug that prevents phpinfo() from working.  It does not support in/out parameters.

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PL/php 1.2 was released on 2005-12-13.  This version adds SRF (Set-Returning Function) support.  It is also an attempt to make the build system a bit more independent of your actual setup.  In order to build it, you need to have the apxs program somewhere in your path.  Please report any incompatibility.

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PL/php 1.1 was released on 2005-12-05.  This version is much cooler than the previous one because you don't have to patch PostgreSQL nor PHP sources -- actually, you don't even need those sources, so it's much easier to install than the previous 1.0 version.