Install PHP Extension

EthickS

I want to install extra php extensions like xdebug, swoole, fileinfo, mbstring, imagick etc but there are no option to install extra php extensions
How to install?

Adam

You can install any PHP module which exists in PECL by building it with the pecl binary. The path will be /opt/ecp-phpXX/bin/pecl where phpXX denotes the PHP version, for example PHP 8.1 would be /opt/ecp-php81/bin/pecl. The module will be placed in the default extension dir for your chosen PHP version and can be added either to the global php.ini or per-website php.ini using the extension directive.

The only caveat is that, right now, only one custom extension can be loaded at a time since the php.ini editor will only allow a single extension directive. This has changed in 12.1.0 and you will be able to allow your customers to select from your custom-built extensions in the same way they do from the extensions we provide, using the toggle system under "developer tools".

Slakish

Adam How exactly do I install Extensions Global now? I don't understand where I have to install and specify this.

gmakhs

Adam so if we add an extension it will auo load on the dev page?

JimLam

I am running 12.7.1, when I tried to add more than one extension, it still prompts an error "This directive already exist"!!!

Please fix this, the end-user needs 3 extensions to be loaded.

At the moment, I am overriding it by putting in the container's overlay/usr/local/lib/php.ini, but I don't think that will survvive any changes.

JimLam

Or alternatively is there any way that we can preload it as default for the server???

JimLam

I install directly by uploading the module into the extensions/no-debug-non-zts directory, but the web interface does not pick up the extensions at all.