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

dl() will not help you either, since it only loads libraries from certain paths, and those paths are usually only writable by the system administrators for security reasons.

I very much doubt that there is a way to use binary libraries without the consent of the hoster.