php - am using ubuntu 12.10. unable to use PHP_PERL extension. Unable to install the extension as well

I need to run a Perl script because I need a module that Perl has that PHP does not.

This is my code for testing purposes in PHP

echo ("Hello World");


$perl = new Perl();
$perl->require("someperlscript.pl");

I got

Hello WorldPHP Fatal error:  Class 'Perl' not found in /var/virtual/abc.com/testperl/testperl.php on line 7
PHP Stack trace:
PHP   1. {main}() /var/virtual/abc.com/testperl/testperl.php:0

Then I tried to install to no avail.

What should I do to get Perl running inside a ubuntu 12.10 server edition?

Answer

This answer works as of 29 Jan 2013.

First of all, inside ubuntu do

wget http://pecl.php.net/get/perl-1.0.1.tgz

to download the tgz file from http://pecl.php.net/package/perl

Unzip the tar

tar -zxvf perl-1.0.1.tgz

Go into the uncompressed folder

cd perl-1.0.1

Remove the current php_perl.c because for some reason, it did not work with my php5.

Download another php_perl.c from github repo https://github.com/do-aki/php-ext-perl

wget https://raw.github.com/do-aki/php-ext-perl/a3d7db22eb7964ea9cb39ea2f866d10df26655d4/php_perl.c

Run this line by line

export PHP_PREFIX="/usr"
export PERL_PREFIX="/usr"
$PHP_PREFIX/bin/phpize
./configure --with-perl=$PERL_PREFIX --with-php-config=$PHP_PREFIX/bin/php-config
make  

If you get errors like /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl, then you need to install

sudo apt-get install libperl-dev

Install the extension (this step can require root privileges)

make install

Add perl extension into your php.ini (this step can require root privileges)

extension=perl.so

Restart your php5-fpm

sudo /etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart

You may get issues to do with locale when you run Perl.

Look at the missing locales. Assuming you have missing en_SG and en_SG.UTF-8

Try

sudo locale-gen en_SG en_SG.UTF-8
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

and then reboot.

If you still have locale issues,

Try

sudo nano /etc/environment

Append the missing locale to LC_ALL

LC_ALL = "en_SG.UTF-8"

Reboot.

I want to thank tm064 from #perl and NullDev from #ubuntu for helping me with this solution.