Re: The future of PHP

> (Even though I didn't understand quite how shared objects work. <g> ) Like, I only did it once, and it was GD, and about 80% of the time it puked trying to display an image, but... Basically, if you compile using --with-apxs in the first place, and then you re-compile from source using that --with-apxs thingie again only you add more --with-foobar options, you get these .so files in the libs directory that you can just http://php.net/dl into your script rather than install the whole new PHP binary. More importantly, you could compile them on a different machine (same hardware with all the same versions of everything) and then put them onto a server that ain't got those toys. (In my case it was about not altering the "main" PHP binary and making it non-standard from the other 7 boxes for what was just a test run of something I wanted to play with for a day...) Or, at least, that's how my vague memory of stumbling through this once goes... Now if somebody more organized than me (most of you, I imagine) wants to try that and turn it into a HowTo to add to the PHP site, that would be pretty nifty :-) -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm