[PHP] PHP Extensions as Shared Objects?

2008-05-29 Thread Weston C
This might be a dumb question with an obvious answer somewhere, but I'm wondering if it's possible to build php extensions as shared objects that plug into the PHP binary much like an apache shared module plugs into apache. Is PECL close to this? Sorry if this is obvious. Searches on the topic

Re: [PHP] PHP Extensions as Shared Objects?

2008-05-29 Thread Chris
Weston C wrote: This might be a dumb question with an obvious answer somewhere, but I'm wondering if it's possible to build php extensions as shared objects that plug into the PHP binary much like an apache shared module plugs into apache. Yes. See http://www.php.net/dl (though a lot

Re: [PHP] PHP Extensions as Shared Objects?

2008-05-29 Thread Weston C
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See http://www.php.net/dl (though a lot of hosts disable this functionality for security reasons). Fortunately, I'll have full control of the hosting environment in the context this matters. :) dl is definitely interesting, but

Re: [PHP] PHP Extensions as Shared Objects?

2008-05-29 Thread mike
On 5/29/08, Weston C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fortunately, I'll have full control of the hosting environment in the context this matters. :) dl is definitely interesting, but I'm worried that runtime invocation might mean performance hits. Is there a way to do load/startup time inclusion?