I've been stuck trying to solve this problem in many ways, reading a lot of posts but still having no luck. I work on a Mac, OSX 10.7 Lion, and I'm writing a plugin for a WordPress site (php files) using MAMP, and at one point I have to make an HTTP request:
$request = new HttpRequest('something');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_METH_GET);
There's an error when executing this request and when I checked the log file, here's the message:
"PHP Fatal error: Class 'HttpRequest' not found in (the_php_file)"
I've already installed PEAR, PECL and the HTTP extension (pecl_http), Xcode and its command line tools. This is what I did:
modified the PATH:
$ echo "export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.profile`
verified that the paths for php, pear and pecl are correct:
I downloaded the source for php from the MAMP page (and checked that the version I downloaded was the same one I'm using, which is php5.5.3). Then I extracted the content and put it into /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/include/php
./configure
pecl install pecl_http
I also added these extensions to the php.ini (initially, I modified the MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/conf/php.ini file):
extension=raphf.so
extension=propro.so
extension="http.so"
About that last one in quotation marks: when I added the extension manually, I did it like this: extension=http.so
. Then (when trying to fix my problem) I tried an alternative installation that modified the php.ini automatically, and wrote the extension with the quot. marks, but the result was still the same, so it didn't make a difference.
After all of this, I stopped the MAMP server and started it again, but when I executed the php I still got the error (visible in the php_error.log):
PHP Fatal error: Class 'HttpRequest' not found
I've been following this guide mostly, among so many more: http://www.lullabot.com/blog/article/installing-php-pear-and-pecl-extensions-mamp-mac-os-x-107-lion
I'd appreciate any idea because I've run out of them.
The class HttpRequest is provided by v1 of this PECL extension.
Re-install via: $ pecl install -f pecl_http-1.7.6
You can find documentation for v2 here, though: https://mdref.m6w6.name/http