Bug #17798 Updated: OS Independat Extension Loading dl()

ID: 17798 Updated by: markonen@php.net Reported By: cox@idecnet.com Status: Closed Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: All PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: In a word, yes. We don't have control over how people name their PHP extensions. The Mac OS X version is a good example: the PHP extensions on this platform will have the suffix ".bundle", while PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX will contain ".dylib". There are a ton of problems with dl() anyway, so if you wish to write portable code, just instruct your users to edit php.ini to load extensions where appropriate instead of relying on that old hack. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-17 07:25:16] cox@idecnet.com It will work for Windows too? AFAIK extensions there are in the form "php_<ext>.dll". Anyways I found the PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX "hack" still obscure and ugly. Is so difficult to do it automatically? Tomas V.V.Cox ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-17 07:17:12] edink@php.net Stig already added constant PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX so you can do something like (in PHP >= 4.3.0): dl($ext.'.'.PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-17 07:07:47] cox@idecnet.com Change the actual behaviour of dl() to be OS independant, avoiding the actual workarround: + if (!extension_loaded($ext)) { + if (OS_WINDOWS) { + return @dl("php_$ext.dll"); + } elseif (PHP_OS == 'HP-UX') { + return @dl("$ext.sl"); + } elseif (PHP_OS == 'AIX') { + return @dl("$ext.a"); + } else { + return @dl("$ext.so"); + } + } + return true; -- Tomas V.V.Cox ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17798&edit=1