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

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 00:57:04 -0700 (PDT), Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> >> 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. >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. Yeah - that sounds good. I would be very happy to have a function load_pear_class (or something similar), that loads a PEAR component written in C (similar to dl(), but also available in safe_mode). - Martin