Today I had some trouble getting libxml to work in PHP. I was compiling PHP 5.3.10 for a client's Joomla site and it needs libxml. The issue seemed to be commonly happening to many people and I came across a number of forum threads on the topic.
The suggestions mostly hover around installing libxml2 development package. This can be done in Debian or Ubuntu by:
apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev
On other Linux distributions you may try libxml2-devel
But I had already done that and still libxml was not showing up in PHP. I had the --with-libxml-dir setting in ./configure with no luck.
Then I came across the --enable-libxml setting, which although is not mentioned directly in the `./configure --help`, it should have come to my mind. This is how you enable (or disable with --disable) any module from the ext/ directory. Anyway, I found it mentioned here and that worked! The reason for this is because I had --disable-all option set. So all default modules were off, and I had to enable libxml with its enable option.
Hope this helps someone else...
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Thank you so much
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