Re: dl and extension directive in php.ini

> On the other hand, which I believe is the recommended method anyway, is using > the extension= directive in php.ini. While this is still a dynamic module > load, it should only happen once; for instance when the Apache child process > is forked. However, while reading some Zend API docs I began to doubt this, > so I'm interested in some confirmations. Not sure what you are reading, but yes, if you use extension=foo.so in your php.ini file, then foo.so is only loaded at server startup time. However, due to funky Apache startup stuff, it is actually loaded, unloaded and then loaded again at startup, but from then on there is no per-request loading or unloading as there is with dl(). -Rasmus