Install Tidy, PHP

Question

I guess when php was installed on my box --with-tidy arg was not included.

When browsing my php.ini the line:

;extension=php_tidy.dll

is missing.

How can I add the module to my php install? Note I tried adding:

extension=php_tidy.dll

but with no luck.

I checked the docs but all they say is:

This extension is bundled with PHP 5 and greater, and is installed using the --with-tidy configure option.

Libration

I'd assume you either supply php_tidy.dll or compile php --with-tidy alltogether. I might be wrong though – Podesta

Answer 1

I was having the same trouble, and wrote up my solution here:
Installing Tidy 2.0 PHP extension on Ubuntu 10.10
http://web.onassar.com/blog/2010/11/16/installing-tidy-2-0-php-extension-on-ubuntu-10-10/

It works on newer versions of Ubuntu as well.
While it may not be the most direct route, it works well.
I hope it helps others.

Bellicose

This should work for ubuntu these days: sudo apt-get install php5-tidy – Corrade

/*install php5-tidy. Example (for Debian and all:),*/ sudo apt-get install php5-tidy ; /*relaod apache 2*/ : sudo service apache2 reload – Ecthyma

I found this answer resulted in errors on the make step. – Bondie

Answer 2

On Ubuntu, you can add tidy to your php5 installation by running this command in a terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install php5-tidy

If you want to check if it is already installed or validate that the command above worked:

$ php -i | grep libTidy
libTidy Release => 25 March 2009 // means tidy is installed

To install both php5 and tidy at the same time, use this command (as an alternative to the "--with-tidy" configuration option):

$ sudo apt-get install php5 php5-tidy

Hermaherman

The apt was good, work fine, but how to enable? php -i show nothing. – Waddle

Hi, the 2017 problem: apt install php7.1-tidy for PHP 7.1... It is not php7.0-tidy (!). The apt and php -i say nothing about that you try to use wrong version. – Waddle

Answer 3

For PHP 7 just run

sudo apt-get install php-tidy

And restart Apache, That's it :)

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Update: Thanks to @Arnis Juraga

For the version above PHP 7, you can mention the version code as follows.
apt-get install php7.4-tidy

Blade

E: Unable to locate package php-tidy EDIT: never mind me, PHP needs to be installed first obviously :) – Abreaction

For php7 versions, run apt-get install php7.4-tidy and phpenmod tidy – Unseam

Answer 4

Put that line in php.ini next to the other extension=...dll lines and make sure php_tidy.dll is in the directory configured in php.ini under extension_dir.

Heliotaxis

Where could one get that php_tidy.dll (except compiling it from source)? – Amund

Answer 5

In ubuntu: you need to run the following command in terminal

sudo apt-get install php5-tidy

and the restart the server

sudo service apache2 restart.

Hangman

Or with systemd: systemctl restart apache2. – Ptolemy

Answer 6

For those who are having trouble enabling Tidy extension for PHP (using PHP handler for Apache server) on Windows (WAMP server), please note that you may be editing the wrong php.ini file. Assuming that WAMP server is installed in C:\wamp[ver]\ where [ver] is a variable version number.

File that you're probably editing:

C:\wamp[ver]\bin\php\php[ver]\php.ini

File that you must edit:

C:\wamp[ver]\bin\apache\apache[ver]\bin\php.ini

You also might want to make sure what's the correct php.ini file to edit by creating an info php file and add this code to it:

<?php phpinfo();

Then look for Loaded Configuration File string.

Finally make sure you uncomment this line within the correct php.ini file:

extension=tidy

Gamesmanship