If you want native support and you installed PHP as a DSO, you would just type "make clean" (to get rid of previous configuration settings and makefiles), add the new configuration option to your configuration command, then type "make" and "make install" to build a new module. This new PHP module will be dumped in the proper location for Apache, and all you have to do is restart Apache for the proper module to be loaded, not recompile it. What is so difficult about this?

PEAR is PHP's answer to CPAN. It is in its infancy, but it already offers many useful PHP classes. Many popular Perl modules have been (and are being) ported. You wouldn't have to recompile PHP to use one of the PEAR packages.

In reply to Re: Re^6: Preaching Perl gospel to PHP converts... by Anonymous Monk
in thread Preaching Perl gospel to PHP converts... by vladb

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