On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 18:40 -0300, Martin Scotta wrote: > It'd be very nice if some extension could be enabled just by dropping the > "extension file" on the path. > So developers can check what they have using phpinfo, and then upload the > needed extension using ftp. Is it possible?
No sane sysadmin would allow this. Executing random machine code coming from some random user. Mind that this will affect all virtual hosts etc. Besides that: It probably might eventually work on Windows where there is a relatively homogeneous environment - just 4 choices (threadsafe/not-thread safe and 32 or 64 bit) not on a Unix/Linux system where there are other additional factors. And then there's this upgrade issue. When PHP is upgraded all these random modules have to upgraded, too. That's why there are package managers or the windows Installer bundling some PECL stuff (or MSFT's Web Installer thingy) johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
