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The section name is in square braces at the top, followed by any number of name-value pairs, with
each pair on a separate line. As with regular PHP code, variable names are case sensitive and cannot
contain spaces, while the values may be numeric, string or Boolean.
Semicolons placed at the beginning of a line serve as comment markers. This makes it easy to enable
or disable PHP features; rather than deleting a line, you can comment it out so that it isn't parsed. This
is handy if you think you might want to re-enable a feature at a later date, you don't have to delete it out
of the file. After making changes to PHP's configuration through the php.ini file, you'll need to restart
the web server for your changes to take effect
Extensions
The following extensions should be enabled in the Dynamic Extensions section of the PHP.ini file in
order to make PrintShop Web run properly:
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BZ2
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EXIF
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Fileinfo
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GD2
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MySQL
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SOAP
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XSL
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PSW
These extensions may not need to be explicitely loaded as they maybe prepackaged into your PHP
distribution. To load the extension, the extension variable should be used and passed the file name of
the corresponding DLL:
extension=php_bz2.dll
extension=php_exif.dll
extension=php_fileinfo.dll
extension=php_gd2.dll
extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_soap.dll
extension=php_xsl.dll
extension=php_psw.dll
extension=php_curl.dll
extension=php_fileinfo.dll
A copy of the php_psw.dll can be retrieved by installing the demo version of PrintShop Web on a
testing machine or VM session (Virtual Machine) using the PrintShop Web setup. Typically the file is
located at: C:\Program Files\PrintShop Web\Apache\PHP\ext\php_psw.dll. To install this file copy it to
the extensions folder of Apache (typically the ext folder located in the Apache folder) and restart the
Apache web server.
The php_psw.dll requires the APDFL folder to reside in the Apache folder (which is the same location
as the PHP folder, typically this is: C:\Program Files\PrintShop Web\Apache\APDFL). This APDFL
folder should be copied from a standard PrintShop Web installation and placed at the same relative
position on the custom installation.
Extension_dir string
A number of different extensions are available for PHP. On Windows, binary DLL files are included with
the PHP distributions. The extension_dir variable contains the name of the directory PHP should look
in for these extensions.
extension_dir="C:/Program Files/PrintShop Web/Apache/PHP/ext"