php_printer.dll & IIS

Question

PHP 5.2.5 Microsoft IIS 6.0 Windows Server 2003 R2

I have just enabled php_printer.dll in my php.ini file, and it works correctly from the command line. However, running the same commands within a script running on IIS gives me a "call to undefined function printer_open() ...". My boss says we shouldn't have to restart IIS to get it to work, and is unwilling to try, because of the few mission-critical apps we have running on that server. Is restarting IIS necessary, or should the commands be accessible from a script as well as from the command line?

Answer 1

I suggest you ask on serverfault whether a IIS Process Recycling is advisable to reload php/isapi.