Solved No more FTP in PHP 5.4

[DutchDaemon]

First: I know that PHP 5.4 is end-of-life, but I have a client who is still dependent upon it. I'm slowly migrating them to PHP 5.6 and PHP 7, but on a couple of servers they're still stuck on 5.4.

For some obscure reason, ftp_connect stopped working, apparently because PHP 'magically' lost support for FTP.

Facts:

• php5-ftp-5.4.45 is installed (through php5-extensions)
• The module is listed in /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini:

  extension=ftp.so

• The module actually exists:

  -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  42900 Feb  2  2016 /usr/local/lib/php/20100525/ftp.so

• php -i says it loaded the extensions.ini:

Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /usr/local/etc
Loaded Configuration File => /usr/local/etc/php.ini
Scan this dir for additional .ini files => /usr/local/etc/php
Additional .ini files parsed => /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini

But:
php -m does not list 'ftp'
php -i does not have a configuration block for 'ftp'.

What else is needed to wedge FTP support back into PHP 5.4? As far as I can see, PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 support FTP in almost the exact same way (the only difference being that extensions.ini is replaced by per-module .ini files -- I have tried adding a separate ftp.ini, it gets parsed, but alas).

I can see nothing in php.ini that might toggle FTP support on/off, and the php.ini is unchanged between PHP versions to begin with.

Recompiling is not an option. All compiled packages (from our Poudriere repo) are present, installed, and unchanged.

Any ideas?

 

[DutchDaemon]

And it's solved: the PHP module talks to libssl and libcrypto, and those were updated in the OpenSSL port on Oct 31st.

So, for now:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.9 /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.8 && ln -s /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.9 /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.8 && /usr/local/sbin/apachectl restart.

Migration to PHP 5.6 is now proceeding at a faster rate ..

P.S.: I should remember to look into the phperrors log earlier on in the process..