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ChickenBoy
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Another newb question

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I'm lost about something. I have my development box in my office and plan to develop an application locally and then deploy it to a yet-unknown hosting company.

I'm concerned that my configuration in php.ini will not be the same as the host's configuration, especially with regard to what extensions they have enabled. Suppose, for example, I want to use php_mysql.dll and the host doesn't have it.

I also intend to use some 3rd party tools like editize.com's tool.

I'm used to using ASP.NET (please don't hold it against me I just do what I'm told) and in that envronment I can have DLLs just for my application in a shared hosting environment and I'm able to override most config settings. I understand that there is only one php.ini file active on a machine and I can't have my own php.ini file in my own web directory. Is that right?

And how would I go about using an extention that's not in the main extention folder on the host machine?
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i dont think it would be possible unless you were to persuade the hoster to install the extension. otherwise i dont think there are any other wyas unless you port it.
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