Loading Module not in php.ini

I doubt that I can do this... but as someone once told me, "There's no such thing as a stupid question". I guess they were never on any mailing lists! :-) So here it goes.... Is there anyway to load a module without having access to php.ini kind of like a ini_set("extension=mymodule.co"); that would load a new process with this module and pass the request on to it? Cheers, Mike