[Phpmyadmin-devel] About Patch #491236 - php 4.0.3pl1 workaround

[Robin Johnson]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, [iso-8859-1] Loïc wrote:

> Hi List!
>
> The only valuable part of this patch is its middle: commenting
> the whole "dynamically load mysql extension" feature Steve
> added some monthes ago.
>
> Then since we know the "dl" function can't be used neither if
> "safe mode" is on, neither with a multi-threaded server soft.
> and since it'll be disable in the next php revisions the question
> is: shouldn't we remove this feature from the official script?

Actually, we should keep the dl function in there, and just see about
adding checks for all the cases where it won't work. We already have the
function_exists('dl) and ini_get('safe_mode'), so we just need a check for
multi-threaded, which we can probably accomplish by looking at the server
software name.

I actually use the dl loading of modules with Apache/PHP, as it greatly
reduces the memory load on my system.

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