recommended bolt-ons

LordShryku

Building a new server again, and this time around, looking to try to get everything installed up front. After looking around, I've seen a lot of extensions that may suit some of what I do, or may be of future use. So currently, after the initial install, I put in gdlib and phpaccelerator. Just looking to get some feedback here on what everyone else considers useful php extensions....

Moonglobe

My list:

Bzip2
DOM
FTP
Ming
XSLT

only ming and XSLT require external libraries.

LordShryku

Yeah, the external ones are what I'm looking for. Was considering Ming, but what's XSLT do?

Moonglobe

The eXtensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations

requires the Sablotron XSLT parser.

goldbug

I usually build against:

MySQL (duh)
PostgreSQL (if on the box)
XML support (expat)
OpenSSL
PDF support (pdflib)
Mcrypt support (libmcrypt)
Aspell (pspell)
DOMXML (libxml2/libxslt)
XSLT (Sablotron)

or, if you are lazy like me, here's my config script:

./configure \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--enable-bcmath \
--enable-calendar \
--enable-magic-quotes \
--with-pear \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-versioning \
--with-zlib \
--enable-safe-mode \
--enable-trans-sid \
--with-gd \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--enable-exif \
--with-expat-dir=/usr/local \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local \
--with-png-dir=/usr/local \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local \
--with-ttf=/usr/local \
--enable-sockets \
--with-openssl=/usr \
--with-pdflib=/usr/local \
--with-mcrypt=/usr/local \
--with-mssql=/usr/local \
--with-pspell=/usr/local \
--with-bz2 \
--with-zlib \
--with-zip \
--with-xml \
--with-dom=/usr/local \
--with-iconv=/usr/local \
--with-dom-xslt=/usr/local \
--with-dom-exslt=/usr/local \
--enable-xslt \
--with-xslt-sablot=/usr/local

Merve

BCMath is a very good thing to have, but that's just a configuration issue, and is bundled with PHP. But it is a must-have if you need to do accurate math. (There are gross inaccuracies in PHP's deg2rad() function.)