Hi,

I'm a PHP user too, I can only tell from my experience and of how I understand the sources of PHP.

In the PHP source-distribution there is a file main.c
It reads:

if (!module_initialized || PG(log_errors)) {
char *log_buffer;

#ifdef PHP_WIN32
if (type==E_CORE_ERROR || type==E_CORE_WARNING) {
MessageBox(NULL, buffer, error_type_str, MB_OK|ZEND_SERVICE_MB_STYLE);
}
#endif

"Unable to load dynamic library..." is a CORE_WARNING according to what I see in the log.

That means - according to my understanding of this code - if you don't log or display CORE_WARNINGs the messagebox should not appear.

Try to set
error_reporting = E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR
in the PHP.ini

I don't understand why the PHP-developers decided to pop up a messagebox even if you decided to only log errors and warnings.

I understand your problem because I wanted to restart the Apache-Server after updating the PHP-version through a Win2K-Terminal-Session and had to go to the physical webserver though, because the MessageBoxes are shown on Windowstation 0 and not on the very console created for my Terminal-Session.

Best wishes and happy new year,
Bernhard

the latest snapshot does not solve the problem: php stills hangs when an extension cannot be loaded.
When php.exe is called from the commandline the messagebox still pops up, even when I disable the E_CORE_WARNING.
php is normally running in the background, therefore a messagebox should never be used - any message should be written to a logfile!

Do you have "display_startup_errors" ini option on?

display_startup_error = off
but the behaviour is the same no matter what the value of this variable is!

Zeev, looks like you made E_CORE_WARNINGS to cause these messageboxes to popup whatever you have set your error_reporting, display_errors, etc. to..

Pretty please make that MessageBox display go away completely, or optional on startup. I've just spend several unproductive hours debugging the very same problem with PHP CGI process hanging. If it's not an interactive program, do not interact with desktop, damn it!

Dmitry, can you check this out? (Zeev seems to have vanished)

This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.