I need to enable the mcrypt functions on my website, except I’m on a shared host (running linux) and obviously don’t have access to the php.ini file. There does seem to be options for installing PEAR modules but a search told me mcrypt wasn’t available. Is there any way I can do this, short of begging technical support to help me?
Update: Looking around a bit more, it looks like I might be able to use the dl() function to dynamically load a library at run time. Since I’m only using the mcrypt functions in one spot, I could probably get away with doing this since the performance hit (I assume there is a hit) should be minimal. The only problem now is how to get the libmcrypt.so file?
Another update: I’ve downloaded the libmcrypt.tar.bz2 file from Sourceforge and run ./configure, make, and then copied the libmcrypt.so.4.4.8 file into my home directory (as libmcrypt.so), but now I can’t find where to put it so that the dl() function will find it.
The MCrypt Sourceforge page should have it http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/
To compile it just:
EDIT: Can you reference it with a direct path?
What have you tried?
Edit2: It seems that you can only load moduals from the extensions directory set in the php.ini and you cannot override extensions_dir with ini_set so you will either have to convince your host to install it or if they allow you to have your own php.ini (many do usually in [username]/php.ini) then you could set the extensions_dir in there and load the modual with that.