Comments on: Spidermonkey in PECL

By: Ionut G. Stan

Ionut G. Stan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:59:47 +0000

Hi Christophe,

Great work on this extension! I have a couple of feature requests (to come) and a bug report (unfortunately):

http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16967

Alas, my C skills are almost null, otherwise I’d have tried to help you on this. Maybe if you could give me at least some pointers on where to look for solving this…

By: wojta

wojta — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:47:08 +0000

I have added this bug with PHP compiled as Apache2 module:
http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16641

By: saaadel

saaadel — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:41:46 +0000

Simple trick with this module code and ….
http://saaadel.com/phpinfo.php

spidermonkey 0.1.2 work at PHP Version 5.2.6-3ubuntu4.1

By: John

John — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:51:48 +0000

Great work on this extension. Very useful to have, although we can’t use it because of the need for PHP 5.3 beta/RC. Do you know why that’s required and if there’s any way we can make this work with 5.2.x?

By: martin

martin — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:36:53 +0000

Thanks for the reply! I am using Ubuntu 8.10. I installed spidermonkey from the repository. There also are several packages that begin with libjs but most of them appear to be just clientside js frameworks or joystick drivers.

I just tried that mozilla link but it refused to compile.

The install still fails at the same position. My js-cli (that came with spidermonkey i presume) version is JavaScript-C 1.7.0 2007-10-03.

Is there may a static binary i could use to test?

By: Christophe Robin

Christophe Robin — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:14:34 +0000

Which distribution are you using ? Depending on the distro, there should be package named libjs or spidermonkey, if not you’ll need to get this file: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js-1.7.0.tar.gz and build/install it on your system manually.

By: martin

martin — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:45:41 +0000

This looks very promising and is just what I am looking for for a project. Unfortunately getting it to run proves to be the most excruciating task. I’ve finally got the latest php snapshot running but this disables CLI and subsequently pear and pecl. Anyway, I managed to restore that functionality but when i try to install the package i run into this error:

checking whether to enable spidermonkey support… yes, shared
configure: error: jsapi.h not found. Please reinstall libjs.
ERROR: `/etc/php5/temp/spidermonkey/configure’ failed

i have no idea where to get “jslib”. Part of what package-system or package is that? What I could find is either the old mozilla “jslib” or the rather new “jslibs” project. What do I have to do to get past this point (on to the next fatal error?)

thank you very much for the great extension and I’d be too happy actually using it!

By: Christophe Robin

Christophe Robin — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:59:30 +0000

I’d suggest you to build the latest SVN revision, just check how to do at the end of: http://www.bombstrike.org/2009/02/bringing-javascript-to-the-server/
Also, make sure you have: PHP 5.3 ( beta or RC ), spidermonkey 1.7+

By: Dima

Dima — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:23:41 +0000

Hi, I tried to install this extension, but I found the problem:

yums:/# pecl search spidermonkey
Retrieving data…0%MATCHED PACKAGES, CHANNEL PECL.PHP.NET:
=======================================
PACKAGE STABLE/(LATEST) LOCAL
spidermonkey 0.1.2 (beta) JavaScript engine for PHP
yums:/# pecl install spidermonkey
Failed to download pecl/spidermonkey within preferred state “stable”, latest release is version 0.1.2, stability “beta”, use “channel://pecl.php.net/spidermonkey-0.1.2″ to install
Cannot initialize ‘channel://pecl.php.net/spidermonkey’, invalid or missing package file
Package “channel://pecl.php.net/spidermonkey” is not valid
install failed
yums:/# pecl channel-add channel://pecl.php.net/spidermonkey-0.1.2
channel-add: Cannot open “channel://pecl.php.net/spidermonkey-0.1.2″ (Cannot download nonjavascript:document.tcommentform.submit();-http URL “channel://pecl.php.net/spidermonkey-0.1.2″)
yums:/#

By: Christophe Robin

Christophe Robin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:07:28 +0000

Tomorrow I’ll release version 0.1.1 which should remove a bug on NULL PHP values and makes several optimisations coming with revision 47 on the SVN