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

Really the best way is to tell your ISP to include mcrypt support. Even if you bundle your own PHP extension and load it with dl(), there is no guarantee it is going to work after a PHP upgrade, as PHP is sometimes very version-number picky.