Extention enable PHP

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

In my PHP.ini, the extensions are not uncommented.

;extension=php_curl.so

But in phpinfo(), I can see that curl (by example) is enable and in my code I can use it.

manpreet 2 years ago

Extensions can be loaded into PHP two ways. Either statically at compile time, or dynamically at run time.

Statically loaded extensions">extensions are included in the PHP binary at compile time, and does not require an extension= line in php.ini to load it.

Dynamically loaded extensions are not included in the PHP binary, but are saved as dynamic link libraries (.so files on OS X). They require a extension= line in php.ini to load it at run time.

The short answer to your question: Your cURL extension is statically compiled with the PHP executable, therefore it works even though you haven't got a extension=php_curl.so line in php.ini.