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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: phpenmod/phpdismod
From: ocramius@gmail.com (Marco Pivetta)

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Seems like this still modifies the environment. As a non-privileged user
(such as a running production Docker environment) you:

 1. cannot touch the filesystem
 2. Should be able to add a single flag to the terminal, such as it
currently happens with `-dextension=...`, but with opposite effect

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019, 23:39 Legale.legale <legale.legale@gmail.com wrote:

> I have made super simple OS independent phpenmod.
>
> Https://github.com/legale/phpenmod
> On Feb 18, 2019 23:31, Gabriel Ostrolucky <gadelat@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm fan of this idea. I miss this in any other non-debian distro.
> > What nobody mentioned yet, similar script (dockerphp-ext-enable)
> > is used in PHP docker images. You can check them out at
> >
> https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/master/7.3/alpine3.9/cli/docker-php-ext-enable
> >
> > However, enabling extensions in PHP via CLI is easy.
> > It's just php -dextension=extension.so. What isn't easy, is DISABLING
> them.
> >
> > This is very important to do when you have profiling/debugging
> extensions
> > like xdebug enabled.
> >
> > Currently, PHP community needs to do workaround gymnastics because of
> this
> > missing functionality. Check
> >
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31083195/disabling-xdebug-when-running-composer
> > and xdebug-handler created as a result
> >
> https://github.com/composer/xdebug-handler/blob/master/src/XdebugHandler.php
> >
> > Now, authors of CLI tools ship this xdebug-handler and unload it by
> default.
> > This makes their software faster by default, but all the CLI tool
> authors
> > must depend on this. And users are less aware of what's going on.
> >
> > If you are a consumer and your CLI tool does not depend on it,
> > you are out of luck, back to editing .ini files by hand - or
> > wondering why is the tool slow or even abandoning it because of that.
> > If you are a consumer and want to debug your CLI tool using it,
> > you will spend some time figuring out why it doesn't work.
> >
> > I know I went little offtopic here, since this thread is mainly about
> script
> > which persists these settings, instead of just CLI switch, but I think
> this
> > was worth mentioning, as it complements it. IMO hard to edit ini files
> are
> > frustrating mainly because of lacking quick way for disabling
> extensions.
> > Having a CLI swith do not only ENABLE extension, but also DISABLE it,
> would
> > help a lot and shipping script for modifying ini files might be a lot
> smaller
> > necessity after that.
> >
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