Fatal error Call to undefined function pg connect

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I am trying to connect to my database  remote server  which has PostgreSQL installed in it  My PHP code is trying to connect to the database using pg connect    but I get the error saying -  Fatal error  Call to undefined function pg connect   in  var www website functions php on line 82    The line 82 simply is    db   pg connect  conn string   where  conn string    host    hostname   port 5432 dbname    dbname   user    db user   password    db password       all variables defined earlier   I checked many forums and the only solution suggested was locating the php ini file which contains a line - extension   pgsql so  for UNIX  and extension   php pgsql dll  for Windows     This statement is supposed to be commented and the solution is to uncomment it  I have tried it but still does not change the situation  The remote server has a version later than PostgreSQL v9 0 4 installed   I then installed PostgreSQL v8 4 8 on to my laptop and ran the website locally using MAMP  At first  Apache crashed for some odd reason  I fixed that problem but again I ended up with the same error as before i e  Fatal error  Call to undefined function pg connect        I also ran the phpinfo   and it showed that the php version does support the PostgreSQL module I have spent an entire day searching for the solution but have been unsuccessful  This is my first project developing a website and I am out of wits  Any kinda help will be highly appreciated   phpinfo   gives me a huge list of things at the terminal but the listings relevant to PostgreSQL are as follows -  pdo pgsql  PDO Driver for PostgreSQL   gt  enabled PostgreSQL libpq  Version   gt  9 0 4 Module version   gt  1 0 2 Revision   gt    Id  pdo pgsql c 306939 2011-01-01 02 19 59Z felipe     pgsql  PostgreSQL Support   gt  enabled PostgreSQL libpq  Version   gt  9 0 4 Multibyte character support   gt  enabled SSL support   gt  enabled Active Persistent Links   gt  0 Active Links   gt  0  Directive   gt  Local Value   gt  Master Value pgsql allow persistent   gt  On   gt  On pgsql auto reset persistent   gt  Off   gt  Off pgsql ignore notice   gt  Off   gt  Off pgsql log notice   gt  Off   gt  Off pgsql max links   gt  Unlimited   gt  Unlimited pgsql max persistent   gt  Unlimited   gt  Unlimited   I had restarted MAMP after every edit I made since it was mentioned in every post I have read so far  I believe that resets both Apache and php    pqsql so   which is the UNIX equivalent of  php pqsql dll  in Windows  is present in the  extension  directory  I also copy-pasted the  pqsql so  file on to the Apache bin directory but it did not give me any change   I am not running php in the command line primarily  I just was curious to see what phpinfo   would give me relevant to pgsql which I have mentioned in my reply above   I am still working on the tools you have mentioned and will respond as soon as I get any results   Thanks  H

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On Gentoo  use USE flag postgres in  etc portage make conf and re emerge  emerge php

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Fatal error  Call to undefined function pg connect        I had this error when I was installing Lampp or xampp in Archlinux   The solution was edit the php ini  it is located in  opt lampp etc php ini  then find this line and uncomment  extension  pgsql so    then restart the server apache with xampp and test

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I had the same symptom in win7  I got this script    lt  php     phpinfo        pg connect  blah      When I executed the phpinfo php script via apache  http   localhost phpinfo php  then I got the error message  Call to undefined function pg connect   in     When I executed the same script from command line  php phpinfo php  then I got the expected message  PHP Warning   pg connect    Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server  missing     after  blah   In both cases the expected php ini was used   Loaded Configuration File   C  Program Files  x86  php php ini    but the pgsql section was completely missing from the phpinfo in case of the apache-based execution and it was present in the command-line-based execution   The solution was that I added the following line to the apache httpd conf   LoadFile  C  Program Files  x86  php libpq dll    It seems that for some reason this file is not loaded automatically when apache runs the php script but it is loaded if I run the php script from the command line   I hope it helps

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I also had this problem on OSX  The solution was uncommenting the extension   pgsql so in php ini default and deleting the  default suffix  since the file php ini was not there    If you are using XAMPP  the php ini file resides in  XAMPP xampfiles etc

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You need to install the php-pgsql package or whatever it s called for your platform   Which I don t think you said by the way   On Ubuntu and Debian   sudo apt-get install php5-pgsql

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For php 5 4 on Centos 6 10  we include these lines in php ini  extension  opt remi php54 root usr lib64 php modules pdo so extension  opt remi php54 root usr lib64 php modules pgsql so extension  opt remi php54 root usr lib64 php modules pdo pgsql so   It works

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You have to follow these steps   Open the php configuration file  which is located in the following directory    C    xampp   php   php ini   Within that file search the extension section and uncomment the following lines    extension   php pdo pgsql dll   extension   php pgsql dll   and restart your apache

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Edit  I just noticed you were mentionning MAMP  My advice is for Windows but may be useful if you know what corresponding tools to use   Things to try    Have you restarted PHP and Apache since your editing of php ini  Is the php pgsql dll found in your php ext directory  Are you running php as a module  If so  try copying the php pgsql dll file in the Apache bin directory  Are you running PHP from the command line with a flag specifying a different php ini file  You could try using a tool such as Sysinternals  Filemon to view what files are attempting to be accessed when running PHP  You could try using a tool such as Dependency Walker to look at the dependencies for the postgreSQL DLL  in case you have a missing dependency  Quick search brought up ldd for Unix

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Uncommenting extension php pgsql dll in the php ini configuration files does work but  you may have to also restart your XAMPP server to finally get it working  I had to do this

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If you got php5 6 using the ppa repository http   ppa launchpad net ondrej php ubuntu  then you should install the package using  sudo apt install php5 6-pgsql Finally  if you use apache2  restart it  sudo service apache2 restart

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For those of you who have this problem with PHP 5 6  you can use the following command   yum install php56w-pgsql   For a list of more package names for PHP 5 6  open the following link and scroll down to packages   PHP 5 6 on CentOS RHEL 7 0 and 6 6 via Yum

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The solution has to do with the fact that your the file holding your php configurations  i e php ini has uncommented the extension responsible for acting as the middleman between php and postgres  by placing a     in front of the statement  extension pdo pgsql   Quick Fix   Open the php ini file in your favourite editor   atom   Search for the line  extension pdo pgsql   which is under the  Dynamic Extensions  section   a simple ctrl   f  would get you there quick  Remove the     in front of the line   extension pdo pgsql   Restart your server  Go fix more errors like a rock star

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In windows OS find this in php ini  php pgsql dll  and remove the     in the extension then that s it    Cheeers

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I encountered this error and it ended up being related to how PHP s extension dir was loading   If upon printing out phpinfo   you find that under the PDO header PDO drivers is set to no value  you may want to check that you are successfully loading your extension directory as detailed in this post   https   stackoverflow com a 14786808 2578505

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Easy install for ubuntu   Just run   sudo apt-get install php5-pgsql   then  sudo service apache2 restart   restart apache   or   Uncomment the following in php ini by removing the     extension php pgsql dll   then restart apache

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install the package needed  if you use yum   yum search pgsql   then look at the result and find anything that is something like  php-pgsql  or something like that  copy the name and then   yum install  paste the name of the package here

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Add  PHPIniDir  C  php   into the httpd conf file  provided you have your PHP saved in C   or else give the location where PHP is saved   Uncomment following  extension php pgsql dll  in php ini file Uncomment   extension dir    ext   in php ini directory

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