Third-party PHP extensions

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 1, 2009, at 12:22, John Korchok wrote:

> I have a third party (not installed by MacPorts) php extension  
> module "libpdf_php.so" that I formerly called using the  
> extension_dir and extension settings in php.ini. When I upgraded to  
> php 5.3 plus php-oracle and php-mysql, the installation warned me to  
> remove the extension_dir setting, or my MacPorts-installed  
> extensions would not work. I finally figured out that the new  
> MacPorts extensions were in opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug- 
> non-zts-20090626/, so I copied my third-party extension to that  
> directory and also to opt/local/lib/php/extensions/, just for good  
> measure.
>
> Unfortunately, php is not able to find the extension in the new  
> location. I am not clear where I can install third-party extensions  
> now that I cannot use the extension_dir setting.

/opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/ is the  
correct place to put your extension. You then need to write a text  
file in /opt/local/var/db/php5/ (for example libpdf_php.ini)  
containing the following line:

extension=libpdf_php.so

Or, I think you can put that line in your main php.ini if you prefer.


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