impact of missing php extensions

[Don Chambers]

I am experimenting with a VPS from Verio. Their php does not include GDLib or mbstring extensions. What will be the impact of not having those if I cannot get Verio to add them?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

GDLib is required for resizing thumbnails/images; if they also do not have imagemagick, you can't use that functionality.

mbstring is used if you use UTF-8 as charset and want to to uppercase/lowercase string replacements with foreign characters.

I think you can live without those two.

Regards,
Garvin

[Don Chambers]

Thanks for the input Garvin. I'm pretty sure I can live without mbstring, but I need GDLib for thumbnail generation and image resizing. Verio is considering adding both to their default php package.

[Don Chambers]

I was able to find an option for including additional php extensions. All is good and so far I am fairly impressed with Verio.