Is PHP SOAP installed?

[SNK111]

Hi
my site is hosted by a hosting company. I have access to may account via CPanel.

I can see that PHP 5.3.3 is installed.
I need to know if SOAP is installed.

How can I confirm that SOAP is installed?
Can I install this myself in my hosting account?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[cPanelJared]

If SOAP is not installed, it will need to be installed by your host, because it is a PHP extension and will require root access to be added to PHP. Your host can install it by following these steps:

• In the WebHost Manager, click Main >> Software >> Module Installers.
• Next to PHP Extensions and Applications Package, click Manage.
• Enter SOAP in the search box and click Go.
• Next to the entry with the description SOAP Client/Server for PHP, click Install.

Because SOAP is a PHP/PEAR extension, it must be installed by root. You cannot install it yourself from cPanel.

[SNK111]

Thanks Jared for your reply.

The output from phpinfo() can be found here:shahriarnk.com/gmap/Test.php

Can you tell whether SOAP is installed?

Thanks again for your help.

[cPanelJared]

I was incorrect in my statement that PEAR packages would be listed in the output of phpinfo(). They are not. You can see which PEAR packages are installed using the pear list command:

# pear list
Installed packages, channel pear.php.net:
=========================================
Package          Version State
Archive_Tar      1.3.7   stable
Auth_SASL        1.0.4   stable
Console_Getopt   1.2.3   stable
HTTP_Request     1.4.4   stable
Mail             1.2.0   stable
Mail_Mime        1.8.0   stable
Net_DIME         1.0.1   stable
Net_SMTP         1.4.2   stable
Net_Socket       1.0.9   stable
Net_URL          1.0.15  stable
PEAR             1.9.1   stable
SOAP             0.12.0  beta
Structures_Graph 1.0.3   stable
XML_RPC          1.5.4   stable
XML_Util         1.2.1   stable

As a shared hosting customer, unless your host has enabled shell access for your account, you do not have the access required to run the pear command. You will need to ask your host whether SOAP is installed, and ask if he/she will install it for you if it is not installed already.

[cPanelJared]

I neglected to mention that, besides installing SOAP as a PEAR extension, it can also be selected as an option in EasyApache. It is listed in step #6, Exhaustive Options List.

The difference between installing SOAP via EasyApache versus installing it as a PEAR package is that, when running EasyApache, all of Apache and PHP will be rebuilt. If installed as a PEAR package, Apache and PHP will not be rebuilt. This is much less time-consuming and there is less chance of something going wrong.

In either case, however, you will need to contact your host. Running EasyApache and installing PEAR packages both require root access, and only your host has the access required to install SOAP for you if it is not already installed.

[SNK111]

We are using CPanel 11 and it seems we can install SOAP from below:

CPanel > Software/Services section > PHP PEAR Packages > Show Available PHP Extension(s) and Application(s)> SOAP (0.12.0)(on page 5)

Can you confirm this is the right way to enable SOAP for my site so that I can access web services provided by third parties?

When I tried to install SOAP as described above, I got the attached error message; can you confirm what might be causing this?

[cPanelJared]

SOAP is not installing via PEAR because your account's disk quota has been exceeded:

Warning: mkdir(): Disk quota exceeded in System.php on line 277
PHP Warning:  mkdir(): Disk quota exceeded in /usr/local/lib/php/System.php on line 277

Warning: mkdir(): Disk quota exceeded in /usr/local/lib/php/System.php on line 277
ERROR: failed to mkdir /home/shahriar/php/PEAR/Task/Postinstallscript

You will need to free some disk space or have your quota increased in order to install SOAP via cPanel. Every function in cPanel runs as the account user, so this message does indicate that your particular account is over quota.

Alternatively, your host can install the SOAP PEAR package for you via the WebHost Manager.