Bug #51299 [NEW]: PHP defaults to C:\PHP5 folder when loading extension

From: Operating system: Windows 2003 / Doesn't matter PHP version: 5.3.2 Package: *Configuration Issues Bug Type: Bug Bug description:PHP defaults to C:\PHP5 folder when loading extension Description: ------------ I've reported this some time ago for another version of PHP. Tried installing PHP 5.3.2 on Windows 2003. Extracted contents to C:\PHP Copied php.ini-development to C:\Windows\php.ini and remove the ";" from some extensions Rebooted Apache. PHP pops error messages saying it can't load C:\PHP5\ext\php_mysql.dll and so on. "C:\php5" seems to be hardcoded in php5ts.dll, as "c:\php5\pear" is. I believe this is wrong behavior. First of all, PHP is configured to load PHP using this config. entry: LoadModule php5_module "C:/php/php5apache2.dll" Using File Monitor from SysInternals, I can see C:\php\php5ts.dll is loaded next, and C:\Windows\php.ini is used. In the php.ini the default text for both development AND production is this: ; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside. ; http://php.net/extension-dir ; extension_dir = "./" ; On windows: ; extension_dir = "ext" As these are commented by default, I believe a regular user would assume PHP would look for the extensions in [folder where php5ts.dll is] \ ext or more precisely "C:\php\ext", or in the worst case "C:\php". Nowhere in the documentation or in the ini file, there is any mention of "c:\php5" Of course, if I un-comment the setting and specify it as : extension_dir = "ext" php will report the following error: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'ext\php_bz2.dll" and so on, so the default value is wrong. I think the version ".\ext" should be accepted as "." signifies the current folder - but it's not, the only accepted version is to write the full path, "C:\php\ext" Expected result: ---------------- When the extension_dir is commented out (the default in php.ini), the php library should look for the extensions in the EXT folder inside the folder where the library resides. Not a hardcoded C:\PHP5. On Windows, if there's no drive letter or network path at the start of the value, it should be assumed it means a sub-folder in the folder where the library resides. As it is right now in the php.ini, if the value "ext" is there and php5ts.dll resides in "C:\php" or for example "c:\program files\php", php should look for extensions in "c:\php\ext" or "c:\program files\php\ext" Also this is probably unrelated or reported as another bug, but php_exif.dll does not load, even if it's in c:\php\ext I don't know if it depends on something. Actual result: -------------- Extensions shouldn't be loaded from a hardcoded folder, as I already said. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51299&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51299&r=mysqlcfg