Hello,

I've been looking around the internet for a while trying to find a way to access functions from libmikmod.so (tracked music library) from inside of a PHP script. So far the only way I have found is to write a PHP extension with C, but that probably won't work for several reasons:

1.) I'm pretty sure I don't have permission to add extensions to my server's PHP extensions folder,
2.) I don't know how to write a PHP extension anyway.

Does anybody know how I can access the functions and data structures exported by libmikmod.so, or any library for that matter?

It would either have to be via a PHP extension or another (such as C) program that utilises the extension and then you can access it via the system call. I believe that you can load php extension dynamically via the dl() function (although it's not very safe having been depreciated)

Yes, I was just looking at the PHP manual and discovered that if I wrote a small app to print out the data I need from the module files I could call that with passthru(). I suppose that would work...but it just seems kind of messy.

Anyway, thank you for your reply!

Hi Everyone,

I am a newbie on PHP and need to know " How to call shared library functions from PHP".

Please anyone provide a step b y step process to mak eit possible.
Any help would be very useful.

Thank you,
Kapil