As I am learning all that I can, I found that there is an extension difference in windows and linux. windows extensions ending in .dll while linux ending in .so I rebuilt the php.ini with correct extensions and have been able to complete setup. For anyone else who may get this.
You can create a phpinfo.php file and put it in the directory with the phpVMS files. I recommend putting it in the phpVMS directory because different settings can apply to different directories - just like many hosts allow using different PHP versions in different directories.
Then run the file and see what is actually enabled and what isn't.
Contents of the phpinfo.php file....
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
I came across this page from air malta virtual
http://airmaltavirtual.com/en/index.php/bookings,
Is this custom or is the code available, i done a quick search here but didn't find anything.
Daniel, hope you don't mind me listing your site.