Hi All,

Simple one really i'm sure. Just wondering if it is necessary to re-compile PHP everytime you want to add a new module or if using something like the --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/php.d/confs

Or whatever (obviously not that path. but you get the idea...). I'm basically wondering that to add a new module does it really need an php re-compile everytime or is it more that you can compile the module is some method ('shared' perhaps?) and then use the [modulename].ini with extesion=blah.so etc. So once apache restarted the module is usable. I'm thinking along the lines similar to how apache and DSO's work?

I'm hoping that makes sense... perhaps there is a better how to than the php installtion guide because that didn't seem to talk about this option at all, and did say that a recompile is nessasary everytime... i just wanted to check.

And to find out exactly what this is all about... --with-config-file-scan-dir=[blah]. Because otherwise it looks like something that will be just for adding the words extension=blha.so rather than just adding it into the php.ini file anyways.

Cheers,
M

You got the wrong end of the stick regarding the http://www.radwin.org/michael/talks/...-lightning.htm

As for your extensions: you can compile them once, and enable
them via the entries in php.ini ... the config file option won't
do that for you dynamically.


Cheers,
Tink

hi tink,

Thanks for the reply... so i take it from that.. that you don't have to re-compile php to add another module in by using --with-[mod name]=[maybe a path to compiled module as well], everytime, and that its possible to:-

compile the module (as you would have to anyways) then if module was in an unusual place add that path to the ldconfig file and then just add the extension=asfsa.so into the php.in

Does that sound about right?

Cheers,
M