[Techtalk] PHP not finding a function

[Katie Bechtold]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:51:54AM -0600, Aaron Malone wrote:
> Take a look at your php.ini file (in debian
> sid, this is at /etc/php4/apache/php.ini; I'm not sure about woody).  If
> there is a line like:
> ;extension=mcrypt.so
> then remove the semicolon (which comments out the line).  If there is no
> such line, then add one (without the semicolon, of course).

That line already appeared in my php.ini, uncommented.

> Alternatively, you can load that module explicitly in your PHP code,
> like so: 
> <?php dl("mcrypt.so"); ?>

I added this an now I get this message from the PHP script:

Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library
'/usr/lib/php4/20020429/mcrypt.so' -
/usr/lib/php4/20020429/mcrypt.so: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory 
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mcrypt_module_open() 

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