dl function not kicking in...

[jbh]

Hello, I was interested in testing out the dl() function I want to load the gd graphics module (I am using linux/apache and didn't compile gd with php) and
the file is located:

/usr/lib/libgd.so

and I try in my php page

dl("libgd.so");

and the gd/php script and it won't work
I get "can't load module..." errors
or I just get broken images. Oh, and by the way, I didn't try loading through php with extensions_dir yet, I just want to test out the dl function.

So, what would I have to do to get it to work?
Thanks

[seanf]

I think the extension has to be in the directory where PHP loads the other extensions from. Is it?

Sean

[jbh]

lol, I realized a while after I posted this
"D'oh"

no, of course not lol

Yeah, I have to point the extensions_dir
to the folder that has ming.so and libgd.so
and instead of using DL() I'll just use
extension=ming.so
extension=libgd.so

and load them dynamically throgh php.ini. I just don't want to recompile

This won't affect performance too much, will it? (I can confirm I'd be about the only one using gd/ming on this server)

Thanks for all of your time and help.