Install PHP Extensions Without Rebuild

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I've got a VPS setup with Nginx & PHP5-FPM. Being fairly new to unix, VPS etc... it took me ages to get the setup I wanted.

However Now I want to be able to install some extensions onto PHP without haveing to rebuild the entire thing. For example. Is there a way to install the php_tidy extension on an existing PHP setup?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:52:28Z

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You can compile an extensions as a shared library. Then you just have to declare your module in the php.ini.

There is a description at php.net for phpize.

Performance differences between a module and a full compilation are discussed here.

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Emmanuel Over a year ago

I haven't got time to try this now, but it looks like what I need.

Gavin Ballard · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-15 09:58:00Z

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Check out the documentation at http://pecl.php.net/ on how to install PHP extensions.

It's usually as easy as running a command such as

pecl install tidy

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Emmanuel Over a year ago

okay, but I thought this only works for php4? Will it work for PHP5 as well?

Emmanuel Over a year ago

The above command pecl install tidy returned the following error configure: error: Cannot find libtidy ERROR: /etc/pear/temp/download/tidy-1.2/configure --with-tidy' failed

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