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How do you check which PHP modules are installed?
If your server only has a single PHP version installed, you can run this PHP command anywhere, and it will give you the same list of modules. The general command we will be using is php -m. This command will give you the full list of installed PHP modules/extensions.
What are the PHP modules?
PHP modules are extensions mostly written in C language. They can be compiled with PHP to enable static loading (as part of the binary file) or dynamic loading (with the php. ini directive: extension=modulename.so).
How do I know what PHP modules are installed on Ubuntu?
Checking installed PHP modules and PHP version
- RHEL®/CentOS®: yum list installed | grep -i php.
- Debian® or Ubuntu®: dpkg –get-selections | grep -i php.
How many PHP extensions are there?
One of the biggest repositories — https://pecl.php.net/packages.php — contains almost 400 extensions. Not all of them are stable, portable among different PHP versions, and/or well supported. If you see an extension that could be useful, you need to try it to determine if it meets your requirements.
What are PHP plugins?
php file extension or PHP class extension (inherited classes). A PHP extension is a specially formed library or plugin. But a . PHP file extension is the name of a file. And a PHP class extension refers to a class that extends another.
What is PHP file extension?
A file with the . php file extension is a plain-text file that contains the source code written in the PHP (it’s a recursive acronym meaning PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) programming language. PHP is often used to develop web applications that are processed by a PHP engine on the web server.
How do you check if a package is installed or not?
You use the pkgchk command to check installation completeness, path name, file contents, and file attributes of a package. See pkgchk(1M) for more information on all the options. Use the pkginfo command to display information about the packages that are installed on the system.
How do I know what PHP extensions are installed on Windows?
Here’s what you do, from what I understand:
- Put the extension library folder under PHP’s install path. On my computer this is C:pp\php\ext . Search in your PHP. ini for “extension_dir” to find what yours is.
- Edit php. ini to load the extension. Find ; Dynamic Extensions ; . Add line extension=my_lib.dll.
How do you check if a PHP extension is enabled?
Are you looking for a particular extension? In your phpinfo(); , just hit Ctrl + F in your web browser, type in the first 3-4 letters of the extension you’re looking for, and it should show you whether or not its loaded.