Getting Fatal error: Class 'ProtobufMessage' not found in /home/ashwinn/public_html/php-protobuf/example/pb_proto_foo.php on line 10 when trying to execute from browser

[Ashwin Nasare]

[Hubert Jagodziński]

Module is not loaded automatically by your php installation.

[Ashwin Nasare]

Thanks for your response. I have already included Protobuf.so in php.ini. So it should be executable from browser also ,right??

[Hubert Jagodziński]

Make sure you edited the right php.ini file (not just one for CLI interface).

[Ashwin Nasare]

I have edited /etc/php.ini from server.
How can I verify whether I have edited the correct php.ini?using phpinfo?

[Hubert Jagodziński]

Yeap, phpinfo() function should provide you with this information.

[Jáchym Toušek]

I'm getting the same problem. phpinfo reports that file /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-protobuf.ini was loaded and the file contains extensions=protobuf.so. But still I'm getting Fatal error: Class 'ProtobufMessage' not found. php -m does not contain protobuf either. Why?

[Hubert Jagodziński]

@enumag make sure you placed protobuf.so in a directory where PHP looks up for extensions. You can find this directory by running command:

$ php-config --extension-dir

[Jáchym Toušek]

@hjagodzinski Yes, protobuf.so is indeed in php-config --extension-dir. But it still isn't in php -m. I have no idea what I might have missed.

➜  ~ php -i | grep protobuf
/etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-protobuf.ini,
➜  ~ cat /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/20-protobuf.ini
extensions=protobuf.so

➜  ~ php-config --extension-dir  
/usr/lib/php/20170718
➜  ~ cd /usr/lib/php/20170718
➜  20170718 ls
apc.so        exif.so      memprof.so    protobuf.so   wddx.so
apcu.so       fileinfo.so  mysqli.so     readline.so   xdebug.so
bcmath.so     ftp.so       mysqlnd.so    shmop.so      xmlreader.so
blackfire.so  gd.so        opcache.so    simplexml.so  xml.so
build         gettext.so   pdo_mysql.so  sockets.so    xmlwriter.so
calendar.so   iconv.so     pdo_pgsql.so  swoole.so     xsl.so
ctype.so      inotify.so   pdo.so        sysvmsg.so    zip.so
curl.so       intl.so      pgsql.so      sysvsem.so
dom.so        json.so      phar.so       sysvshm.so
ds.so         mbstring.so  posix.so      tokenizer.so

➜  20170718 php -m | grep protobuf
➜  20170718 

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.

[Jáchym Toušek]

... Ok I found the problem. My protobuf.ini contained extensions=protobuf.so instead of extension=protobuf.so.