On Wed, May 2, 2007 6:29 am, list3@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I need to do some socket work on a production machine that is > constantly > busy so I don't dare re-compile php. Anybody know if it's possible to > load > the socket functions dynamically, maybe as if they were in a module? If you can do --with-sockets=shared, for the configure, you should end up with a sockets.so file that you can then use http://php.net/dl to load into your scripts that need sockets... At least, *some* extensions this works... > Alternatively, would it be possible to compile PHP without apache and > with > sockets for command line use only? Definitely. Just compile it as CLI or CGI, without the --with-apxs or --with-apxs2 or whatever pulls in Apache. > If I do that I would like to give > the > resulting object a different name than PHP because I do have some cmd > line > pgms running on the machine. Is that difficult? Then don't do 'make install' but just copy the bin/php over to /usr/local/bin/php-with-sockets Then you can do php-with-sockets -q whatever.php to run that one special PHP binary. Alternatively, you can download the PHP source to a whole new fresh directory, compile it for CLI, and then leave it there, and use: /path/to/php/src/php/bin/php -q whatever.php so that you are running the special php binary from that source directory instead of the usual one in /usr/local/bin (or wherever yours lives) I did that for a CVS version when I needed a patched PHP on a shared host, and it worked pretty well for a cron job. It would be kind of cumbersome for something you wanted to run by hand from the shell a lot, but for a set it and forget it cron job, it was fine for me. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
