Q about using creating zip files with ph

[Anon]

Hello. I read the manual and I tested the code on windows, it works great. I can create the gz file (though I get a funky output sometimes it works)

However, on linux/apache, see, I didn't compile with Gzip support and of course I get undefined (or unsupported) function, fatal errors, when I try gzcompress.

So my question is, are there workarounds
to creating .gz/.zip files dynamically without recompiling php? or is this the only way?

Any special classes that offset the need to recompile? Kinda like fpdf offsets my need to recompile with pdflib to make php's?

Just curious.

Thanks

[van__]

Hmmm...
Why you so scared to recompile?
./make clean
./configure...
./make
./make install

simple.

Dunno, I recompile PHP all the time
either due to upgrading PHP itself or adding new libraries. Nothing to be scared of.

If you absolutely refuse to recompile...
well there are a couple options here.

Option 1 will dynamically load a module for the life of the script:
dl('path/to/myLib.so');

Option 2... McGyverize it.
exec("gzip -flags file");

And there you have it.

[Anon]

Thanks. I won't use DL but I will try loading them through php.ini or system
is what I forgot when I posted this

What are the performance affects if I have about 300/400 people per day hitting a script that uses it?

As for recompiling, I do not want to do it until I feel it's really necessary as I have one site that simply cannot lose php for much time and I don't want to do it just for my one site using gzip functions.

[Anon]

also, in recompile, wouldn't I also have to 'rm config.cache' ?

And I presume the php 4 module and httpd.conf are left alone?

I never had to recompile but I realize now php 4.2 is coming out later april I believe, so I might as well give it a shot