Won't run on PHP 5.5, Linux Mint 16 about boris HOT 11 CLOSED

Pretty much the same error on Ubuntu 13.10, so it's not a Linux Mint specific issue.

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It's clear from the warnings that some functions are in the disabled list in php.ini by default in PHP 5.5 (or maybe just on Ubuntu (from which Mint is derived)). Would somebody mind sending a PR with instructions on how to work around this issue?

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Makes me wonder if Boris could accept another command line option for an alternate php.ini file. The PHP cli supports this. The complexity comes from the fact it needs to be in the shebang line... however I think re-executing the process in an automated way could solve this. Does PHP have a function equivalent to Ruby's exec (which replaces the currently running program, rather than executing a shell command).

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The two ways that could work would be calling php as --no-php-ini or passing a minimal(or empty) php.ini in with the PHPRC environment variable. Sadly, the several stackoverflow questions I reviewed indicated there's no easy way to do either.

On the VirtualBox image I am using to study PHP, I removed each reported offending directive from /etc/php5/cli/php.ini until it ran.

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same error on CenOS 6.5 x86_64
PHP 5.5.7 (cli) (built: Feb 10 2014 13:40:33)

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@tobarja I'm reluctant to use anything other than the user's php.ini, as I think it is useful to be able to see how things run in your actual PHP environment. I think it would be better to just document what PHP ini settings are needed, and how to change them.

I wouldn't be opposed to a sanity check being added to the code, however, so on startup Boris can look for things it knows it needs, then report to the user that something is missing (and maybe how to fix it).

For anybody attempting a PR of that nature, that code would definitely be encapsulated into its own class, something like Boris\EnvironmentCheck and then executed early in the bin/boris file.

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Same with Mint 16 + php 5.5.3

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Works just fine in my Arch Linux setup (running 5.5.10).

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I don't know if this is an ongoing problem, but I ran into it on NetBSD, today, with php-5.5.14. I had to explicitly add the extensions for pcntl and posix. After that, the problem went away. Most php developers are on Windows/Mac/or Linux, I am sure. But this might help someone.

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php 5.4 not work, either

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Works for me in Arch, Ubuntu, and OS X. Have you guys tried to isolate this in a virtual box like Vagrant? I'll close this to inactivity, but comment again and it's back.

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