Question

I checked man php and output of php -h, but I didn’t seem to find such thing.

But I remember seeing it somewhere, you could do something like php -Xabc.so script.php to load an extension temporarily.

Anyone know that?

Answer 1

Loading a regular extension via CLI is done with:

php -dextension=abc.so myfile.php

If your extension is not in the default path you can provide an absolute path as well:

php -dextension=/path/to/abc.so myfile.php

To load a Zend extension, it’d advisable to always pass an absolute path:

php -dzend_extension=/path/to/abc.so myfile.php