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Php pecl_http loaded, but not defining any functions

I'm attempting to use the http_build_str() and http_build_url() functions. I've installed and enabled pecl_http already, but I still get this error:

Call to undefined function http_build_str()

I've verified up down and sideways that the extension is installed and enabled. I've also already encountered the kind of warning messages that happen if their permissions are set wrong, so I can rule that out as well.

Then I came upon extension_loaded() and get_extension_funcs(). Their results are a little confounding:

print_r(extension_loaded('http')); // true
print_rt(get_extension_funcs('http')); // []

Doing a sanity-check, I ran those functions against a different extension that I know works, and I did get some results in the function array. As you can clearly see, "http_build_str" and "http_build_url", are not part of get_extension_funcs()'s output as I would have expected. Can anyone please help?

In case it matters, I'm setting this up in a Docker container, and what I think the relevant portions of its configuration are as follows:

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
    git-core \
    build-essential \
    openssl \
    libssl-dev \
    libcurl4-openssl-dev

RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql mbstring exif zip pcntl ftp
RUN docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-gd --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/ --with-png-dir=/usr/include/
RUN docker-php-ext-install gd
RUN pecl install propro raphf \
    && docker-php-ext-enable propro raphf \
    && rm -rf /tmp/pear
RUN pecl install pecl_http xdebug \
    && docker-php-ext-enable http xdebug \
    && rm -rf /tmp/pear
Solution

  • Seems the Php Manuel is a little out of date on this one. Don't know how I missed it, but this question is a duplicate of http.so loaded but http_get undefined.

    The link in the comment answering this is dead, the official docs seem to have moved. https://mdref.m6w6.name/http/QueryString

    Seems the functionality is all still there, just in the form of a few classes now instead of functions.

    $params = ['test1'=>'val1','test2'=>'val2'];
$queryHandler = new QueryString($params);
$queryString = (string)$queryHandler;
print_r($queryString); // test1=val1&test2=val2