Installing PHP extensions on shared hosting

Question

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 s

Answer 1

The MCrypt Sourceforge page should have it http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/
To compile it just:

wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mcrypt/libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz
tar -xzvf libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz
cd libmcrypt-2.5.8
./configure
make
sudo make install

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.