Baikal: Required PHP7 modules (Ubuntu 16.04 dependencies)

[sicherist]

Hello and thanks a lot for creating baikal!

Running ubuntu and apache2 however, the installation took a little longer than expected because of two missing php-modules that are not installed with php7 by default.

First I was presented an error message about "DOMDocument" which was fixed by
apt-get install php7.0-xml
Next I received "mb_detect_encoding()" error message after logging into a baikal calender. So the following module had to be installed:
php7.0-mbstring

I would suggest to include the required php modules "mbstring" and "xml" in the list of requirements for baikal.

I am not sure if this applies to the server edition of Ubuntu or if these modules are already installed by default. Summary of what I needed to get baikal running on an fresh Ubuntu 16.04 install:

• php
• sqlite
• apache2
• libapache2-mod-php7.0
• php7.0-sqlite3
• php7.0-mbstring
• php7.0-xml

[evert]

Thanks. These are covered in composer.json, but it makes sense to add them to sabre.io too.

[sicherist]

Sorry, I was not familiar with composer, and should probably have a look at it.

[evert]

Nah not your fault at all. We should document it ;)

[evert]

I'm closing this ticket, not because it's not a good idea.

It's a low priority for the maintainers, and I feel it's better to keep a Github issue list that reflects actual work being done vs a list of things that will never get closed.

If someone reading this is interested enough in this feature to make the changes, feel free to comment here to re-open the issue.