Jean-Michel Dault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Currently, both Mandrake and RedHat use the following trick:
> perl -pi -e "s|^;extension=mysql.so|extension=mysql.so|" /etc/php.ini
>
> This sucks, because you then need perl to install a PHP extension.
> We sure could use sed, but this requires a temporary file, and this
> creates some security risks.
>
> Is there a quick and easy way to do this kind of thing in PHP? Or would
> this be something that we could integrate?
>
> And I know there's a new solution with the new config-file-scan-dir, but
> my question is a general search-and-replace solution.
echo 'w php.ini.bak
,s/^; *extension=mysql.so/extension=mysql.so/
wq
' | ed php.ini >/dev/null
should do what you want.
Regards...
Michael
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