{"id":2284,"date":"2015-09-11T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T12:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/truelogic.org\/wordpress\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2015-09-13T04:56:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T04:56:38","slug":"writing-php-extensions-part-5-web-enabling-your-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truelogic.org\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/11\/writing-php-extensions-part-5-web-enabling-your-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing PHP Extensions \u2013 Part 5 Web-enabling your extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

See Part 4 Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

So far our helloworld extension works only in the command (CLI) version of PHP. Most people use PHP as a web scripting language. In this article we will see how to make our extension available as a PHP module running under Apache.<\/p>\n

The procedure is not complicated. It just requires a little bit of shell scripting to copy files into the right directories.<\/p>\n

STEPS TO TAKE<\/h4>\n
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  1. First, locate the mods-available folder of your PHP installation. This is most likely \/etc\/php5\/mods-available<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Next we form a symlink of the helloworld.ini file to the php apache conf.d directory where all the registered extensions store their ini files.<\/li>\n
  3. We enabled the helloworld extension using php5enmod<\/em> command<\/li>\n
  4. Apache is restarted<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The script to do the above is shown below. Be sure to change the paths as per your installation. Create the script in an editor and save it as webenable<\/em> in the same folder as the rest of the your extension code. Run chmod 775 webenable<\/em> to give yourself executable permissions to this file.<\/p>\n

    After that run sudo .\/webenable<\/em> to execute the script<\/p>\n

    #!\/bin\/bash\r\ncp helloworld.ini \/etc\/php5\/mods-available\r\nln -s \/etc\/php5\/mods-available\/helloworld.ini \/etc\/php5\/apache2\/conf.d\/helloworld.ini\r\nphp5enmod helloworld\r\nservice apache2 restart\r\n<\/pre>\n
    When you run phpinfo() in your web page, you should see the helloworld module listed :<\/p>\n
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    Next: Part 6 – Adding A Class to your Extension<\/a><\/h4>\n
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