Is it possible to enable an extension programmatically in PHP?

Question

We can enable php_zip by uncomment it in php.ini as follows:

;extension=php_zip.dll

How to do it programmably?

I'm using PHP5.3

Answer 1

http://php.net/manual/en/function.dl.php

dl — Loads a PHP extension at runtime

Why do you want to do it pragmatically though?

Answer 2

edit: ok I was sooo wrong, see The Pixel Developer response