dl

Loads a PHP extension at runtime.

dl Function synopsis

dl(string $extension_filename): bool

Parameters

$extension_filename

Typestring

This parameter is only the filename of the extension to load which also depends on your platform. For example, the sockets extension (if compiled as a shared module, not the default!) would be called sockets.so on Unix platforms whereas it is called php_sockets.dll on the Windows platform.

Return value

Typebool

Returns true on success, false on failure If the functionality of loading modules is not available or has been disabled (by setting enable_dloff in php.ini) an E_ERROR is emitted and execution is stopped. If dl fails because the specified library couldn't be loaded, in addition to false an E_WARNING message is emitted.