[mythtv-users] Re: MythWeb and PHP5

ndoss at mtlaurel.org ndoss at mtlaurel.org
Thu Aug 19 01:48:20 EDT 2004


Chris Wall wrote:
> I just did an emerge -uD world and PHP 5.0.1 was included.  When I try
> and use MythWeb now I get a "Fatal error: Call to undefined function
> session_name() in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/includes/init.php on
> line 48" error.  Anybody seen this?  Any ideas?

Chris Peterson replied:
> Mythweb doesn't work with PHP 5.   I'm still trying to figure out a way
> to fix it so that it does.
>
> Although I will admit that the error you're getting is a little weird.
> session_name() is completely valid in php 5.

I was also seeing this.  If you try do a phpinfo, you'll probably see that
php was compiled with "--disable-sessions".  I recompiled with sessions
enabled and this error went away (but others popped up).

--Nathan Doss


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