Need to install php_curl.so on Cent OS 5.2

[cabot]

Hello,

I am trying to run a php script that uses php curl library but I get the following errors:

PHP Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/modules/php_curl.so' - /usr/lib/php/modules/php_curl.so: cannot open shared object file:

I tried to install php_curl via yum, but not sure which package it is in. yum search or google search did not yield any centos specific result.

How do I install or configure php to be curl enabled? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you,
Cabot

[cabot]

Both curl and php-common packages are already installed.

rpm -qa php-common
php-common-5.1.6-20.el5_2.1


rpm -qa curl
curl-7.15.5-2.el5

[mickh]

I don't have this library on my CentOS 5.1 system:

/usr/lib/php/modules/php_curl.so

but my PHP curl functions work.

Are you using a third party script?
Maybe you will need to modify the script not to call that library?

[markkuk]

Curl support is built-in in CentOS PHP. There are no packages to install and no dynamic libraries to load. Your PHP script should test the result of extension_loaded('curl') before trying to dl() the library. See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.extension-loaded.php and http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.dl.php.
Actually, you shouldn't use dl() at all in scripts run from a web server. Extensions should be loaded from php.ini.