Project:Facebook Live Stream Module
Version:7.x-1.0-beta1
Component:Documentation
Category:support request
Priority:major
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active

Issue Summary

I tried to install the 7.x-1.0-beta1 today. The very first thing I noticed, even before installing it, is that there is a complete lack of install documentation in the readme file. I wasn't at all sure what I needed. I know I've run jquery related modules on my site before, so I thought it would be fine. It give me the following fatal error:

Exception: Facebook needs the CURL PHP extension. in include() (line 4 of /var/www/main/sites/all/modules/facebook_stream/facebook-php-sdk/src/facebook.php).

I'm really just looking for some decent installation notes! This is a pretty major problem that could probably be easily fixed with the right knowledge.

In the meantime, could someone give me a tip for fixing this? Obviously the 'curl_init' function is missing, so it's throwing the error, but I'm not exactly sure what to do about it.

Paragon

Comments

#1

Paragon,

Regarding the exception you need to have PHP CURL. To install PHP CURL refer url http://www.php.net/manual/en/curl.installation.php.

Regarding the documentation, Installation steps are mentioned at http://drupal.org/node/483570, which you can find on the Facebook Live Stream Project page at Resources Section. I added the requirements section to that document. Normally php curl will be installed in any hosting service, so did not mention it explicitly before.

#2

I was actually developing offline, using LAMP, which is likely why I ran into the issue. Thanks for the information.

paragon

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