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[nycphp-talk] Enabling PHP Extensions

Ajai Khattri ajai at bitblit.net
Fri Sep 18 15:35:56 EDT 2009


On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Randal Rust wrote:

> I have asked tech support at the hosting company to enable the php_zip
> extension for me. The person I am dealing with has told me that PHP
> has to be recompiled for this, because of what this page says:
> 
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/zip.installation.php
> 
> Now I am by no means a server expert, but I enabled this same
> extension yesterday on our development box by simply un-commenting it
> in the php.ini file, stopping and restarting the server.
> 
> Am I missing something here?


Means the PHP on your dev box has all extensions already compiled and 
installed so you can selectively add/remove them by simply editing your 
php.ini.


-- 
Aj.




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