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Doc Bug #33696 No information about how to install pdo drivers
Submitted: 2005-07-14 15:07 UTC Modified: 2005-08-30 16:41 UTC
From: holliwell at gmx dot net Assigned: dbs (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Unix like
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-07-14 15:07 UTC] holliwell at gmx dot net 
Description:
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Hi,
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo.php does not provide any information neither where and how to get pdo-drivers for * nix like systems nor how to install them.
The available drivers are listed only with not further infos.

Regards
Friedhelm

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 [2005-07-14 15:24 UTC] dbs@php.net 
The very first line under "Installation: Windows", and the second line under "Installation: Linux and UNIX" is:

"Follow the same steps to install and enable the PDO drivers of your choice."
 [2005-07-14 16:11 UTC] holliwell at gmx dot net 
That comment is a bit sparse.
Maybe provide one sample for installing a pdo driver?

Another issue:
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/PDO
stores the File as PDO, no *tar.gz to un-tar.
(on a normal configured linux system)

Friedhelm
 [2005-08-30 16:41 UTC] vrana@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.

"E.g. for MySQL driver, replace PDO with PDO_MYSQL in the following instructions." added after "Follow the same steps to install and enable the PDO drivers of your
choice.".

/get/PDO sends 'Content-disposition: attachment; filename="PDO-0.9.tgz"' header, your wget probably ignores it.
 
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