PHP issues with PHP 4.3.9 and dialup_admin

[Josh Howlett]

> On 6/16/07, Josh Howlett <J.Howlett at ukerna.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Ethan,
> >
> > Have you got the freeradius-mysql RPM installed?
> 
> I don't know if I remembered to post a followup or not, but, 
> "undefined constant" messages aside (which are caused by a 
> change to how PHP requires single quotes), my real problems 
> with dialup_admin not working at all (blank screens), was 
> caused by a missing rpm related to PHP and a 
> reported/documented "feature" that if you call a PHP function 
> that does not exist, you get no feedback in the way of error 
> messages - just total silence.

You were probably missing php-mysql, as I was. PHP does normally return
sensible error messages of the kind you mention, so I had the some
confusion as you. I'm not sure if there is an new option in php5 to
enable these, or if something has changed in dialup_admin to suppress
them...

josh.