Updated 20. Marts 2007
The PHP / Java Bridge makes it possible to run use java objects within your PHP code. For example; let’s say you have a jar-file containing some functionality you may want to use in a PHP application.
To use this you must have a Java installed – either the latest version of Java (JDK) or a black hawk version installed.
Get the source code php-java-bridge_3.0.4.tar.bz2 from the PHP / Java bridge website and unpack it with
wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/php-java-bridge/php-java-bridge_3.0.8.tar.bz2
tar xvjf php-java-bridge_3.0.4.tar.bz2
cd php-java-bridge-3.0.4
phpize - in order to use this you'll need to have the php5-dev package installed
./configure --with-java=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun - be sure to set this to the path where the Java installation is located
If the ./configure command fails because the automake version is less than 1.6 try this
apt-get install automake1.6
update-alternatives --config automake
Select version 1.6 of automake in the update-alternatives dialog and then try to run ./configure again
Now we just need to compile and install, this is done by:
make
make install-modules
Add this line to php.ini in order to enabled the PHP/Java bridge extension:
extension=java.so