Chapter 2. Installation

If you compile libpurple from scratch, you could use the following configure options:

user@host~# ./configure --enable-gnutls=yes --enable-nss=no --disable-gtkui --disable-consoleui --disable-screensaver --disable-sm --without-x --prefix=/usr

This will compile only libpurple. Otherwise, if you have already pidgin installed, libpurple is normally present in the /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib.

While within Phurple dir, invoke:

user@host~# phpize && ./configure --enable-phurple && make && make install

Since the extension is installed, you can simply add a line in your php.ini with which it'll be loaded by default. An other way would be to use the dl() php function at the top of your script

<?php
	if(!extension_loaded('phurple')) {
		dl('phurple.' . PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX);
	}
?>

Note, that since the windows variant isn't exists yet, there are no installation instructions for this. Any help with windows builds is appreciated.