installing php modules without root..

[Anon]

i am used to the awesome power of perl modules.
but php seems to be catching up in functuality for web stuff pretty fast.

anyways most people don't know it... figured this out on my own, in perl you can install most any module withour root... even ones requiring compiling(some perl guru's told me not possible --😉

simply use the perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=...

my question is, is it possible to install PHP modules without root access?

the only method i can think of is installing a WHOLE new PHP as a normal user and running it as a .CGI

my thoughts... there's gotta be a better way???

oh yeah... anyone one know of a way a php script can connect to SSL servers without running a program like curl http://www.yahoo.com? i'm used to perl LWP which can use SSL

thanks~

digirave

[Anon]

PHP is an Apache module (or CGI) and to compile any additional support into PHP requires that you have write access to the Apache (or HTTPD) server so you can overwrite the old binary with the new one.

In other word, root might not be required but access to the box as the user that the web servers runs as is.

[Anon]

PHP 4 has support for Curl as a module. This saves the extra overhead of starting an extra process for the ssl access.