In order to use the http_build_url function in PHP, I apparently need the
http PECL library.
So, I was hoping the installation of the
PECL HTTP library would be as easy as:
sudo pecl install pecl_http.
Well, that didn't work. The PHP: Installing the HTTP extension - Manual tried to have me believe the following was the right combination of characters:
sudo apt-get install libcurl3 php5-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libmagic-dev
sudo pecl install pecl_http
Damn. No luck. Errors out with:
ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/pecl_http/configure --with-http-curl-requests=y --with-http-zlib-compression=y --with-http-magic-mime=y --with-http-shared-deps' failed
At this point I tried compiling it manually, and got errors including (as I made my way down the rabbit hole of installing multiple dependencies):
checking for curl/curl.h... not found
configure: error: could not find curl/curl.h
...
cl_http-1.7.4/missing.c -o missing.lo
libtool: compile: Failed to create `.libs'
make: *** [missing.lo] Error 1
Until I finally found the winning solution (well, for my Ubuntu 11.10 server):
sudo apt-get install -y curl libcurl3 libcurl4-gnutls-dev libmagic-dev
sudo pecl install pecl_http
At this point, I just added in extension=http.so in the php.ini file,
restarted apache using sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart, and was on my way.
Hope that helps :)