How To Compile And Install PHP Extensions From Source

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If you have already compiled and installed PHP and need to install more extension, I will show you a quick-n-dirty way of installing and compiling your desired extension without re-compiling everything

Download & unzip the PHP5 source code

cd /tmp
wget -O php-5.6.22.tar.gz http://pl1.php.net/get/php-5.6.22.tar.gz/from/this/mirror
tar -zxvf php-5.6.22.tar.gz
cd php-5.6.22

Prepare the extension (phpize)

I will install Imap extension in this example :

cd /tmp/php-5.6.22/ext/imap/
phpize

### if you get autoconf error :
yum install autoconf

./configure --with-libdir=lib64 --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl
make

Move the extension

$ php -i | grep extension_dir
- extension_dir => /usr/local/php/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20131226 => /usr/local/php/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20131226

Copy the extension to that directory.

cp /tmp/php-5.6.22/ext/imap/modules/imap.so /usr/local/php/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20131226/

Activate extension in php.ini

# find your .ini file
$ php --ini

# Add to file
extension=imap.so

Restart your php

# In case of Apache
$ /etc/init.d/httpd restart
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

# php-fpm:
$ /etc/init.d/php-fpm restart

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