It occurs to me that though I wrote an introduction post about Pango for PHP, I forgot to mention that it’s actually installable using the PECL installer.

 pecl channel-discover pecl.mgdm.net
 pecl install channel://pecl.mgdm.net/Pango-0.1.0

Assuming you have the required development packages installed, it should go off and install it. You may still need to add the

extension=pango.so

line to your php.ini. Hope this helps someone give it a go! As ever, any feedback is welcome.