I have PHP 5.1.6 running with a ton of mods and extensions enabled, is there a way to reconfigure the current settings as well as add SOAP to the mix?
Yeah; if you do php -i|grep 'Configure Command', that will show you the current build options for your recompile. Just add the option for SOAP to that.
If you have the source-code of that version of PHP (pretty old, but you surely can find it somewhere ; for instance : http://www.php.net/releases/#5.1.6 ), yes, you can :
phpinfo() or php -i : in the output, there will be the "configure" line that was used to build your current version of PHP--enable-soap (If I remember correctly), to add the new extension !make, make install)And voila ;-)
And when you have the new PHP executable and/or module, just keep using the same php.ini, so you don't have to reconfigure everything.
for CentsOS 5 (Linux) I just found that I could use yum install php-soap and then restart Apache
depending on your Linus distro you might be lucky and find you can simply install php-soap through your package manager
yum install php-soap for CentOS, or apt-get install php-soap for Debian/Ubuntu etc
php -i|grep 'Configure Command'
does not seem to work anymore. You can do
php-config