Are you confused about how to install the PECL extension? We can help you with the installation.

Actually, PECL is a repository for PHP extensions and its installation is a bit confusing process.

Here at Bobcares, we often receive requests from our customers to install it as part of our Server Management Services.

Today, let’s discuss how our Support Engineers install it easily for our customers.

Why we install PECL extension?

Before getting into the PECL installation process, let’s now discuss PECL first.

PECL stands for PHP Extension Community Library.

Actually, it is a repository for the PHP extensions. We can download and install any PHP extension available from their repository efficiently.

Unfortunately, in some cases, we will not be able to download old PHP extensions from the Ubuntu repository. In such cases, we can download those extensions easily using PECL.

But, installing PECL is a tedious process. Also, it is quite confusing.

How we install it?

Having a decade of experience in managing servers, our Dedicated Engineers are familiar with the PECL. Now, let us discuss how our Support Engineers install it easily.

PECL extensions often add new built-in functions to PHP that does not exist in the core PHP language.

And, they provide a way for PHP code to interact with additional system libraries.

Recently, one of our customers approached us for help to install PECL extensions.

So to install it, our Support Engineers installed a compiler first and then executed the below command.

Here, “A.B” represents the applications PHP version. And, if we need a PECL extension for multiple PHP versions, we need to repeat the installation for each version.

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Conclusion

In today’s writeup, we discussed how to install the PECL extension easily. And also we saw how our Support Engineers install it efficiently for our customers.