How to Install Multiple PHP Extensions using PECL via SSH?

Installing PHP extensions for every version could be necessary while configuring PHP on a Linux hosting system. You will need to launch the installer for each version in order to accomplish that.

To Install a PHP Extension

1. Install a PHP module by running the pecl command:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php72/root/usr/bin/pecl
/opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/usr/bin/pecl

EasyApache 4 offers multiple versions of PHP. The command for each PHP version is different as shown in the above example with the PECL location for PHP 7.2 and PHP 7.3.

2. Install a module using the pecl install command:

/opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/usr/bin/pecl install xmldiff

To Install Multiple PHP Extensions

Loop through each PHP version and run the installer with the command:

ls /opt/cpanel/ea-php{72..80}/root/usr/bin/pecl 2>/dev/null | while read phpversion; do $phpversion install xmldiff; done

The code you see above is to loop through PHP versions from 72 through 80 while installing xmldiff for each of them.

That can be used as an example to install one or more PHP extensions simultaneously on a Linux server using PECL.