Title: PHP Extensions Required for installation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# PHP Extensions Required for installation

 *  [nastame](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nastame/)
 * (@nastame)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-extensions-required-for-installation/)
 * 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

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-extensions-required-for-installation/#post-978147)
 * [http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/](http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/)
 *  Thread Starter [nastame](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nastame/)
 * (@nastame)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-extensions-required-for-installation/#post-978184)
 * So I need no PHP extensions installed what so ever?
 *  [GrandSlambert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grandslambert/)
 * (@grandslambert)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-extensions-required-for-installation/#post-978187)
 * 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.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-extensions-required-for-installation/#post-978285)
 * > _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”.
 *  [dgeo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgeo/)
 * (@dgeo)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-extensions-required-for-installation/#post-978452)
 * 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€…
 *  [Rhand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhand/)
 * (@rhand)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-extensions-required-for-installation/#post-978495)
 * I agree. I have installed PHP locally with three extensions:
 *     ```
       php5-gd
       php5-mbstring
       php5-mysql
       ```
   
 * and now some themes don’t work as I am missing some. Need to figure out which
   ones..

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