Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/faq.databases
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I upgraded to osx El Capitan and now my web development platform is all screwed up; I cannot access my postgres database from the php based webpage I am developing. I have spent over two days searching the internet for a solution but it's full of garbage. Everything I try does not work. I tried rigging the delivered php that comes with the mac, I tried installing php with homebrew using this command: brew install php56-pdo-pgsql 

Homebrew seemed to install everything but I still get the fatal undefined function pg_connect() error.


Test script:
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Try to open php in Safari browser:
http://localhost/~mymacuser/testpg.php

This is what displays on my webpage:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function pg_connect() in /Users/mymacuser/Sites/testpg.php on line 8

<?php 
$host = "localhost";
$port = "5434";       //note: 5434 is the correct port
$user = "myuser"; 
$pass = "mypass"; 
$db = "mydb"; 

$con = pg_connect("host=$host port=$port dbname=$db user=$user password=$pass")
    or die ("Could not connect to server\n"); 

$query = "SELECT VERSION()"; 
$rs = pg_query($con, $query) or die("Cannot execute query: $query\n"); 
$row = pg_fetch_row($rs);

echo "Database version... <br>";
echo $row[0] . "\n";
echo "<br><br>";
?>



Expected result:
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The expected result is php would know what pg_connect() means and I wouldn't get a fatal error. Or at least there would be an easy way to know what is wrong with my installation so I can fix it.

The PHP installation process is downright horrible. You need to fix/simplify your installation process or people are going to start using a different tool for web development.

I've been searching support pages all over the web for two days and there is a lot of garbage out there. It is extremely frustrating. Installing php should NOT be this difficult.


Actual result:
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My phpinfo() has this:

Additional .ini files parsed	/usr/local/etc/php/5.6/conf.d/ext-pdo_pgsql.ini

pdo_pgsql
...
PDO

PDO support	enabled
PDO drivers	mysql, odbc, sqlite, pgsql
...
PDO Driver for PostgreSQL	enabled
PostgreSQL(libpq) Version	9.4.5
Module version	1.0.2
Revision	$Id: 93432550a76a2298959ec74f40d65c7195a82ad2 $