PHP Extensions Required for installation

  • Hello,

    I’m new to WordPress and I was wondering if some one has or could point me in the the right direction of the php extensions that WordPress needs enabled to work.

    Thanks
    Mike

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

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    Thread Starter nastame

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    So I need no PHP extensions installed what so ever?

    Not sure what you mean by “php extensions”, but as far as I know a standard install of PHP on any server will run WordPress. You do of course have to have at least PHP 4.3 to run WordPress, but it’s likely your server already has that or better.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    So I need no PHP extensions installed what so ever?

    No. WordPress can make use of some of them if they’re there, like the GD extension for graphics manipulation and such, but none of them are actually “required”.

    Are you sure ? wp even works without mysql nor mysqli for example ? without pcre ? (preg_quote, preg_match, preg_replace)…

    a comment from wp-includes/rss.php:
    # if PHP xml isn't compiled in, die
    (seems to need xml module… no rss feeds without it ?)

    iconv, not ‘required’, is mandatory to be able to manage different charsets…

    Even if almost all php’s extensions can be replaced with php code, it can’t be as efficient as compiled extensions. It would be nice to have a list of “possibly used” extensions.

    My 2€…

    I agree. I have installed PHP locally with three extensions:

    php5-gd
php5-mbstring
php5-mysql

    and now some themes don’t work as I am missing some. Need to figure out which ones..

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