PHP Modules Installed With H-Sphere PHP Packages

This document covers the following issues:

• PHP Modules Default Location
• Enabling/Disabling PHP Modules
• php.info
• PHP Modules Enabled in Standard PHP Installation

PHP Modules Default Location

To check php modules default location, run:

# /hsphere/shared/php/<PHPVERSION>/bin/php-config --extension-dir

This is the directory is linked to hsphere catalogue structure
/hsphere/shared/apache/libexec/php<PHPVERSION>ext

To list installed so-modules, run:

# ls /hsphere/shared/apache/libexec/php<PHPVERSION>ext/*.so

Enabling/Disabling PHP Modules

Modules are added one by one with ini-files of the same name that can be found in:

/hsphere/local/config/httpd/php<PHPVERSION>/php.d

If an ini-file contains extension=extname.so line, php at startup loads a corresponding extension module. Mind, any text following an unquoted semicolon ";" is ignored, thus the module indicated in the line; extension=extname.so won't load.

hspghere-apache-webbox doesn't have such mechanism of adding extension modules.

At updates coming after hsphere-php4-4.4.4-2 ini-files are not overwritten (as in earlier versions), but remain unchanged. Only for extensions that don't have corresponding ini-file, ini-files are created according to procedure above.

php.info

php.info gathers info on php core, modules, apache environment etc. You can run it as console command:

/hsphere/shared/php4/bin/php-cli -i |less

or screen its output at http://box_ip/hsphpinfo.php

PHP Modules Enabled in Standard PHP Installation

Notes:

• mcal extension has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer bundled with PHP as of version 5.0.0.
• yp extension has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer bundled with PHP as of version 5.1.0.
• filepro extension has been moved to the PECL repository and is no longer bundled with PHP since version 5.2.0.
• overload extension: see the Overloading in PHP 5 page for more information.