On Solaris 9 I have installed php 4.4.4 from the freesunsoftware site
and it works fine. Now I need to install a specific extension to enable
ftp support. I did this in about 5 mins on a suse box last week with
yast, whereby it copies ftp.so to the extension directory then edits
your php.ini accordingly. Unforunately, I have had not such luck on the
sun server. I can find nowhere on the web that seems to supply the .so
extensions, seriously guys Ive been searching for about an hour! And I
dont think compiling it is going to work because compiling php
extensions on solaris sounds a bit hairy and Im not even sure I could
find the source (of ftp.so).

If anyone's had any experience with this I'd like to hear. Cheers.