Posted by Dan Rossi on 10/21/25 11:15

On 07/05/2005, at 3:16 AM, Rory Browne wrote:
>>
>
> It depends:
>
> What webserver are you using?
> PHP/Apache will let you load extensions using .htaccess, which can be
> your own extensions, located in a directory that you have write access
> to. I've never tried it but something like
> php_extension_dir /home/yourname/php_extensions
> php_extension your_php_extension.so
> should do the trick.
>
> If you don't mind modding your php code, to take account of the fact
> that these extensions aren't available by default, you can create a
> function to load dynamic modules, using the extension_loaded() and
> dl() functions (see the examples on www.php.net/dl ). Bare in mind
> that this will not run in certain webservers, noteably Zeus, and IIS.
>
>

Its apache 1.3, 2.0 is not a goer until threading support is available
unless it is already ? What I was asking is, are we able to run say
phpize as a non root user and build a module that can be dynamically
loaded ? I wouldnt mind checking out the PHP5 soap extension , but
getting an admin to install it will take forever. Lemme know thanks.

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