Title: Needed php estensions
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Needed php estensions

 *  Plugin Author [netandreus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netandreus/)
 * (@netandreus)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/needed-php-estensions/)
 * Before start of plugin installation you should check availability of this php-
   extensions:
    1.  1. intl
    2.     ```
           sudo apt-get install libicu-dev
           sudo pecl install intl
           ```
       
    3.  2. phar
        `sudo app-get install php5-phar`
 * **Full list of requirements**
    **Required**
    - PHP needs to be a minimum version of PHP 5.3.3
    - JSON needs to be enabled
    - ctype needs to be enabled
    - Your php.ini needs to have the date.timezone setting
 * _Be aware that Symfony2 has some known limitations when using a PHP version less
   than 5.3.8 or equal to 5.3.16._
 * **Optional**
    - You need to have the PHP-XML module installed
    - You need to have at least version 2.6.21 of libxml
    - PHP tokenizer needs to be enabled
    - mbstring functions need to be enabled
    - iconv needs to be enabled
    - POSIX needs to be enabled (only on *nix)
    - Intl needs to be installed with ICU 4+
    - APC 3.0.17+ (or another opcode cache needs to be installed)
 * **php.ini recommended settings**
    - short_open_tag = Off
    - magic_quotes_gpc = Off
    - register_globals = Off
    - session.auto_start = Off
 * **Doctrine**
 * If you want to use Doctrine, you will need to have PDO installed. Additionally,
   you need to have the PDO driver installed for the database server you want to
   use.
 * **Link**
    [http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/requirements.html](http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/requirements.html)
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