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

PHP in versions before 5.2.5 allowed you to use a path in the dl() function so that you could easily load libraries in a shared environment.

This changed for 'security' reasons with 5.2.5 and as far as I am aware your only option is to get your system administrator to add the module to the extensions_dir.

This issue is described at bugs.PHP.net