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As of cPanel & WHM version 11.36, we ship PHP 5.3 and its modules as a set of RPMs. This includes the corresponding PEAR and PECL packages.

PEAR packages are pieces of software that are written in the PHP script language.

PECL packages are binary-compiled PHP modules that do not ship with PHP.

PHP -m

The following list of PHP modules are built with the PHP binary:

• bz2
• Core
• ctype
• curl
• date
• dom
• ereg
• fileinfo
• filter
• ftp
• gd
• gettext
• hash
• iconv
• imap
• json
• libxml
• mbstring
• mcrypt
• mysql
• mysqli
• openssl
• pcre
• PDO
• pdo_mysql
• pdo_pgsql
• pdo_sqlite
• pgsql
• Phar
• [PHP Modules]
• posix
• Reflection
• session
• SimpleXML
• sockets
• SPL
• SQLite
• sqlite3
• standard
• tidy
• tokenizer
• xml
• xmlreader
• xmlwriter
• Zend Guard Loader
• zip
• zlib

PEAR Modules

The following list of PEAR modules are shipped with cPanel:

• Archive-Tar
• Auth-SASL
• Console-Getopt
• Date
• DB
• File
• HTML-Template-IT
• HTTP
• HTTP-Request
• Log
• Mail
• Mail-Mime
• Net-SMTP
• Net-Socket
• Net-URL
• Net-UserAgent- Detect
• PEAR
• PEAR-Command- Packaging
• Structures-Graph
• XML-Parser
• XML-RPC
• XML-Util

PECL modules

The following list of PECL modules are shipped with cPanel:

• ioncube
• sourceguardian
• zendopt

 Note: In cPanel & WHM version 11.36, the cPanel PHP loader option in the PHP tab under Tweak Settings changed. These options were buttons, but are now checkboxes. Users can now select between various combinations of ioncube, sourceguardian, and zend. If a user does not wish to select any modules, they should not select any checkboxs.

PHP disconnected from MySQL5

The PHP binary now links to the MySQL and Postgres libraries provided in the usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty file.