Is it possible to load an extension from PHP cli interface, without modify the ini file?

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

Answer 1

To disable all by default (by ignoring php.ini) and specify specific PHP extensions, try:

php -n $(for e in curl ctype json iconv; { echo -dextension=$e.so; } | xargs) -m

To run the script, change -m into file name.