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1. nastame
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hello,

   I'm new to WordPress and I was wondering if some one has or could point me in the the right direction of the php extensions that WordPress needs enabled to work.

   Thanks
   Mike

2. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #

   http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/

3. nastame
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   So I need no PHP extensions installed what so ever?

4. grandslambert
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Not sure what you mean by "php extensions", but as far as I know a standard install of PHP on any server will run WordPress. You do of course have to have at least PHP 4.3 to run WordPress, but it's likely your server already has that or better.

5. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #

   So I need no PHP extensions installed what so ever?

   No. WordPress can make use of some of them if they're there, like the GD extension for graphics manipulation and such, but none of them are actually "required".

6. dgeo
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Are you sure ? wp even works without mysql nor mysqli for example ? without pcre ? (preg_quote, preg_match, preg_replace)…

   a comment from wp-includes/rss.php:
   # if PHP xml isn't compiled in, die
   (seems to need xml module... no rss feeds without it ?)

   iconv, not 'required', is mandatory to be able to manage different charsets...

   Even if almost all php's extensions can be replaced with php code, it can't be as efficient as compiled extensions. It would be nice to have a list of "possibly used" extensions.

   My 2€...

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