How to make PHP support other database WITHOUT recompiling?

[RC]

By default PHP always supports MySQL.
But all our database servers are PostgreSQL or
Informix. Order for me get PHP supports other
than MySQL. I need download PHP source codes and
compiled it "--with-pgsql=/var/lib/pgsql" option.
Then reinstall it.

I think there is must a way I can edit the php.ini
file, make php support other database beside MySQL.

Would anyone out there tell me how to do that if you
know the answer.

Thank Q very much in advance!

[Sjoerd]

RC wrote:

I think there is must a way I can edit the php.ini
file, make php support other database beside MySQL.

If you already have the modules, you can indeed do this. If you have
installed PHP on Windows or used the package from your distribution, it
is likely that you already have the modules or that they are available.
If this is the case, you can enable them in php.ini.

[Mladen Gogala]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:43:18 -0400, RC wrote:

I think there is must a way I can edit the php.ini
file, make php support other database beside MySQL.

Indeed you can. You must download the corresponding PECL extension,
compile it, put it in the right directory and enable it like this:

extension_dir = "/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20050922"
extension=oci8.so

For this, you must have shared library oci8.so in the directory defined as
an extension_dir:
[root@medo ~]# ls -l /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20050922/
total 272
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 271587 Mar 31 08:43 oci8.so

If you are running Windoze, ready-made extensions can be downloaded from
http://pecl4win.php.net. If not, you'll have to download and compile your
own. In theory, you should be able to write "pecl install <module>", but
pecl command is a buggy junk that doesn't work, so you'll have to do it
the hard way:

pecl bundle <module>
cd module
phpize
../configure
make
make install

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