Installing the chilkat.php File for All Apps

If you’re using the pure-PHP “chilkat.php” stub (which just declares the Chilkat classes and forwards calls into the native extension), you can drop that one PHP file into any directory that’s on PHP’s include_path, and then every script on that server can do:

require_once "chilkat.php";

without having to copy it into each project.

How to set it up

1. Choose a shared folder

   Pick something like

   /usr/share/php/Chilkat/         (on Linux)
   C:\php\share\chilkat\            (on Windows)

2. Move the stub file there

   mv chilkat.php /usr/share/php/Chilkat/chilkat.php

3. Add that folder to your include_path

   In your php.ini (or via .htaccess / ini_set) set:

   include_path = ".:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/php/Chilkat"

   or on Windows:

   include_path = ".;C:\php\share\chilkat"

4. Use it from any script

   <?php
   require_once "chilkat.php";
   
   // …
   ?>

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