owncloudPHPExtensions.txt

OwnCloud

Required
PHP >= 5.6

Extensions

  (d) means that this extension is enabled by default

(d) --disable-ctype     Ctype            For character type checking
--with-curl[=DIR]       cURL             Used for aspects of HTTP user authentication
(d) --disable-dom       DOM              For operating on XML documents through the DOM API
--with-gd[=DIR]         GD               For creating and manipulating image files in a variety of different image formats, including GIF, PNG, JPEG, WBMP, and XPM.
(d) --disable-hash      HASH Message     For working with message digests (hash).
                        Digest Framework  
(d) --without-iconv     iconv            For working with the iconv character set conversion facility.
(d)                     JSON             For working with the JSON data-interchange format.
(d) --disable-libxml    libxml           This is required for the _DOM_, _libxml_, _SimpleXML_, and _XMLWriter_ extensions to work. It requires that libxml2, version 2.7.0 or higher, is installed.
--enable-mbstring       Multibyte String For working with multibyte character encoding schemes.
(d)                     PDO              This is required for the pdo_msql function to work.
(d) --disable-posix     POSIX            For working with UNIX POSIX functionality.
(d) --disable-simplexml SimpleXML        For working with XML files as objects.
(d) --disable-xmlwriter XMLWriter        For generating streams or files of XML data.
--enable-zip            Zip              For reading and writing ZIP compressed archives and the files inside them.
--with-zlib[=DIR]       Zlib             For reading and writing gzip (.gz) compressed files.


Database Connectors:

--with-pdo-mysql[=DIR]
--with-mysql-sock[=DIR] pdo_mysql        For working with MySQL & MariaDB.
--with-pgsql[=DIR]      pgsql            For working with PostgreSQL. It requires PostgreSQL 9.0 or above.
(d) --without-sqlite3   sqlite           For working with SQLite. It requires SQLite 3 or above. This is, usually, not recommended, for performance reasons.


Required For Specific Apps:

--enable-ftp            ftp              For working with FTP storage
                        sftp             For working with SFTP storage
--with-imap[=DIR]       imap             For IMAP integration
                        ldap             For LDAP integration
                        smbclient        For SMB/CIFS integration
                                         + SMB/Windows Network Drive mounts require the PHP module smbclient version 0.8.0+; see SMB/CIFS.


Optional:

--with-bz2[=DIR]        Bzip2            Required for extraction of applications
(d)                     Fileinfo         Highly recommended, as it enhances file analysis performance
--enable-intl(or byPECL)intl             Increases language translation performance and fixes sorting of non-ASCII characters
--with-mcrypt[=DIR]     Mcrypt           Increases file encryption performance
--with-openssl[=DIR]    OpenSSL          Required for accessing HTTPS resources
                        imagick          Required for creating and modifying images and preview thumbnails
                                         * byPECL && --with-imagick=DIR


Recommended

For Specific Apps:

--enable-exif           Exif             For image rotation in the pictures app
--with-gmp              GMP              For working with arbitrary-length integers


For Server Performance:
For enhanced server performance consider installing **one of** the following cache extensions:

apcu
memcached
redis             (>= 2.2.6+, required for transactional file locking)
See Configuring Memory Caching (https://doc.owncloud.org/server/10.0/admin_manual/configuration_server/caching_configuration.html) to learn how to select and configure a memcache.


For Preview Generation:

avconv or ffmpeg
OpenOffice or LibreOffice


For Command Line Processing:

--enable-pcntl          PCNTL            Enables command interruption by pressing ctrl-c