compile-time options of php

[driesvt]

Everywhere in the manual of PHP I see that to use different modules it had to be compiled in at compile time, eg.
with-module

Eg. To work with images, the document state:
You will also have to compile PHP with
-with-jpeg-dir=/path/to/jpeg-6b.

Does this mean that everytime you want to use one of these special modules that weren't included you have to recompile your PHP each time and reinstall it - this cannot be!

What way can you let PHP use new modules that weren't compiled in at compile time, that you later on want to use?

[New Oddity]

Sorry, hate to break the news to you... But you have to recompile it everythime you find something new you want to use. The server was desi9gned for a web admin to sit down and say to themself, "Okay, I need a server to do this and that." And they would go build to only do this and that. It keeps down on server size and processor time because it is not looking for as many things...

Hope I've given you some insight.

[freddydoesphp]

New Oddity and driesvt actually you can enable dynamic loading od modules, but your php must be compiled with dl support. --enable_dl


//From the manual about dynamic loading of modules at runtime.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.dl.php


The configuration directives explained
http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php
search the page for "enable_dl"

[driesvt]

Thank you for the help, freddydoesphp and New Oddity.

However --enable_dl doesn't want to work, but the correct option is --enable-dl

[freddydoesphp]

Oh right sorry for the typo.