Are PECL extensions compatible with Static/PHP applications?

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Is there a general answer as to whether PECL extensions are compatible with Static/PHP? If so, is there a set of Webfaction-specific installation instructions. NOTE TO WEBFACTION: I recommend deprecating memcache and adding memcached to your standard PHP. Both extensions implement libmemcached, but memcached is more capable.

Answer 1

Yes, you can build PECL extensions and use them in our standard PHP environment.

The basic procedure to download and build an extension goes like this (I'm using PHP 5.6 - if you're using something different then change "56" to whatever you need. My hypothetical extension is called "whatever"):

mkdir ~/{tmp,src,php56-exts}
export TMPDIR=~/tmp
ln -s /usr/local/lib/php56/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-*/* ~/php56-exts/
cd ~/src
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/whatever-1.2.3.tgz
tar zxf whatever-1.2.3.tgz
cd whatever-1.2.3
phpize56
./configure --with-php-config=/usr/local/bin/php56-config
make
cp modules/whatever.so ~/php56-exts/

At this point your extension is built. To configure your app to use it, add the following lines to the app's php.ini or .user.ini (you can create the file if it doesn't already exist):

extension_dir = /home/your_username/php56-exts
extension = whatever.so

Hope that helps! Please let us know if you need anything else.

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