How to install php imap extension on Centos (or any)

The php package (extension) for IMAP is usually:

php-imap

Sometimes, for example on amazon ec2, when installing PHP ver. 5.5 or 5.6,

In order to install this (or any other) PHP extension,

that not come with the default PHP,

You should installed the one related to your PHP version.

For example,

one of my servers have PHP 5.6 installed on it,

but when running 

 yum install php-imap 

which gives:

Error: php56-imap conflicts with php-imap-5.3.29-1.8.amzn1.x86_64
Error: php56-common conflicts with php-common-5.3.29-1.8.amzn1.x86_64
Error: php55-common conflicts with php-common-5.3.29-1.8.amzn1.x86_64
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest 

so instead, check first which version currently installed:

yum list installed | grep php

 which gives:

php56.x86_64                          5.6.14-1.119.amzn1           @amzn-updates
php56-cli.x86_64                      5.6.14-1.119.amzn1           @amzn-updates
php56-common.x86_64                   5.6.14-1.119.amzn1           @amzn-updates
php56-imap.x86_64                     5.6.14-1.119.amzn1           @amzn-updates
php56-jsonc.x86_64                    1.3.6-1.19.amzn1             @amzn-main
php56-mbstring.x86_64                 5.6.14-1.119.amzn1           @amzn-updates
php56-mysqlnd.x86_64                  5.6.14-1.119.amzn1           @amzn-updates
php56-pdo.x86_64                      5.6.14-1.119.amzn1           @amzn-updates
php56-process.x86_64                  5.6.14-1.119.amzn1           @amzn-updates
php56-xml.x86_64                      5.6.14-1.119.amzn1           @amzn-updates 

 

Which means that your PHP version is 5.6 (you can also run php -v)

php -v

 which gives:

PHP 5.6.14 (cli) (built: Oct 16 2015 22:58:32)
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies

All needed now is to install the correct version.

If you install php55-imap (or any other package) it won't work!

Some have several PHP versions installed.

command:

 

yum install php56-imap

 

don't forget to restart your apache after that.

service httpd restart

and done... :)

Hope it helps.

PHP | XML to Html Table elment convertion

In this thread,
I will show generic & universal function that
gets XML string,
convert it,
and display it as an HTML table.
(you can add any css style to design your table later on of course)


The following code is using XML example from http://www.w3schools.com/xml/simple.xml.
The XML looks like that:

<breakfast_menu>
  <food>
    <name>Belgian Waffles</name>
    <price>$5.95</price>
    <description>Two of our famous...</description>
    <calories>650</calories>
  </food>
  <food>
    <name>Strawberry Belgian Waffles</name>
    <price>$7.95</price>
    <description>Light Belgian waffles...</description>
    <calories>900</calories>
  </food>
  <food>
    <name>Berry-Berry Belgian Waffles</name>
    <price>$8.95</price>
    <description>Light Belgian....</description>
    <calories>900</calories>
  </food>
  <food>
    <name>French Toast</name>
    <price>$4.50</price>
    <description>Thick slices made....</description>
    <calories>600</calories>
  </food>
  <food>
    <name>Homestyle Breakfast</name>
    <price>$6.95</price>
    <description>Two eggs, bacon...</description>
    <calories>950</calories>
  </food>
</breakfast_menu>

The function xmlToHtmlTable 

gets a SimpleXMLElement parameter which points to main parent for which will print all his children,
and returns html table representing the XML as string.

The Code:

 <?php  
   
 // get XML remotely / locally / or / just set it as string '<root>...</root>'  
 $sXml = file_get_contents('http://www.w3schools.com/xml/simple.xml');  
   
 // parse XML  
 $oXML = simplexml_load_string($sXml);  
 if (!$oXML) {  
      die('xml format not valid or simplexml module missing.');  
 }  
   
 // assuming running the root  
 $oXmlRoot = $oXML; // or can be [$oXML->food]  
   
 //echo '<pre>'; print_r( $oXmlRoot ); echo '</pre>';  
 echo xmlToHtmlTable($oXmlRoot);  
   
   
 function xmlToHtmlTable($p_oXmlRoot) {  
      $bIsHeaderProceessed = false;  
        
      $sTHead = '';  
      $sTBody = '';       
      foreach ($p_oXmlRoot as $oNode) {  
           $sTBody .= '<tr>';  
           foreach ($oNode as $sName => $oValue){  
                if (!$bIsHeaderProceessed) {  
                     $sTHead .= "<th>{$sName}</th>";  
                }  
                $sValue = (string)$oValue;  
                $sTBody .= "<td>{$sValue}</td>";                 
           }  
           $bIsHeaderProceessed = true;  
           $sTBody .= '</tr>';  
      }  
        
      $sHTML = "<table border=1>  
                     <thead><tr>{$sTHead}</tr></thead>  
                     <tbody>{$sTBody}</tbody>  
                </table>";  
      return $sHTML;  
 }  

This will output:

 

Hope it helps!

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