Installing SSH2 Extension for PHP on CentOS 5,6

Ssh2 is a very important extension especially while making connections of games with gamepanels etc.
Installing the SSH2 PHP extension on CentOS is actually pretty simple. Although it isn’t available as a straight yum install, it boils down to a few short steps.
Before we start, please ensure that you have the EPEL repo installed. If you don’t, goto http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/About_EPEL to get instructions.
Firstly, we’re going to install the dependencies:

• yum install gcc php-devel php-pear libssh2 libssh2-devel

These will allow us to build the SSH2 extension using pecl.

• pecl install -f ssh2

After running that command, it should stop at a line like:
..
........done: 22,740 bytes
5 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20041225
Zend Module Api No: 20060613
Zend Extension Api No: 220060519
libssh2 prefix? [autodetect] :
All you have to do is hit Enter and it should detect the proper path. Once the install is completed, you just have to tell PHP to load the extension when it boots.

• touch /etc/php.d/ssh2.ini
• echo extension=ssh2.so > /etc/php.d/ssh2.ini

Now restart your webserver and test to see if the changes took effect.

• /etc/init.d/httpd restart
• php -m | grep ssh2

You should get a line returned with ‘ssh2′.
If you are still having problems post below I will love to help :)