Re: How to Add a Module

Richard Lynch wrote: > Nick Peters wrote: >> i currently have a apache and php installed perfectly on my box >> (slackware 10). However, i have the need to use mcrypt. I have mcrypt all >> compiled and >> installed, but how do i add the module to my php install? I have searched >> a >> few places on the net and i can't figure it out. Thanks in advance. > > If you compiled from source, go back to your PHP source directory, and do: > > ./config.nice --with-mcrypt > > This should copy all your old settings, which were stored in 'config.nice' > from the last time, but tack on --with-mcrypt for you this time. > > If you installed from an RPM or whatever Slackware uses for package > management, then you have just stumbled across the main downfall of > packages: Whomever makes the Slackware PHP package thinks you don't need > mcrypt and you are stuck with starting over compiling PHP from source to > get what you want. Sorry. > > PS While you are at it, you may want to breeze through the manual and see > if there's anything else you for sure want to play with in the next few > weeks, and install that too. > > Buuuuuut, don't go hog-wild trying to add in a bunch of stuff you might > want "some day" -- You'll drive yourself crazy trying to get it all > installed, and never get to it until you need to upgrade PHP anyway. "I > been down that road before" > I install from source, so that's good. after i run ./config.nice --width-mcrypt, do i have to copy any file to my php dir? Thanks in advance. -- -Nick Peters