Re[2]: [PEAR-DEV] Some more plane hacking...

> >> Some of us cannot afford our own servers, and have to rely on our > >> hosts installation of PHP, and the modules they choose to compile > >> in. Some hosts will recompile PHP with a new extension if we ask > >> nicely, but most won't. > > > > That's what dl() is for. > > Some of those hosts which run PHP in safe mode don't allow dl() use. Well, they are most likely not allowing includes of any PEAR classes at all at the moment either then. safe_mode_include_dir is a very recent thing. But for something like this I could see a base set of PEAR helper stuff all bundled into a single C extension and made part of the main PHP distribution to make it more likely that it is available everywhere. -Rasmus