ssh2 library for php

Most extensions for php (PEAR or PECL packages) are generally available through yum and apt-get on red-hat and debian distros respectively.

Extensions installed: snmp, curl, mysql, mysqli, pdo, pdo-mysql

On Ubuntu 7.10, apt-get of any of these php extensions does the following:

1. Copies the name.so (e.g. snmp.so) file in /usr/lib/php5/20060613/ directory.

(No idea why is the directory name a date, instead of 'ext' as mentioned in several forums. Anyways, in /usr/bin/php-config5, you can find the line:
entension_dir=/usr/lib/php5/20060613/)

2. In /etc/php5/conf.d, creates a file name.ini (e.g. snmp.ini), with a single line: extension=snmp.so

The php ssh2 library was not found using apt-get. The following steps were followed in install it. (assuming that openssl, pear, pecl are already installed)

(prerequisite: install the libssh2 library)
1. wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/
sourceforge/libssh2/libssh2-0.14.tar.gz
2. tar -zxvf libssh2-0.14.tar.gz
3. cd libssh2-0.14/
4. ./configure
5. sudo make all install

(now, php ssh2)
6. sudo pecl install -f ssh2 - this created ssh2.so in /usr/lib/php5/20060613/
7. created a file /etc/php5/conf.d/ssh2.ini with a line: extension=ssh2.so

Most of the instructions were followed from this page. PHP's own documentation page for ssh2 couldn't help much, but the rest of the documentation can be found there.