Re: php.ini under Windows

: Zeev Suraski wrote: : > : > For historical reasons (in other words, I have no idea why it's like : > that), under Windows, PHP will refuse to start up if it doesn't find the : > php.ini file. Especially under ISAPI when this error cannot be conveyed : > to the user, this can be quite problematic. : > Does anyone see the point in this behavior? I want to change it so that : > PHP will happily start up under Windows, regardless of the availability of : > the php.ini file, like it does under other platforms. : : : Given the current implementation (which we already said we'll change in the : future, and I'm planing on giving it a look sometime during the next month : or so), I personaly think it is a bad idea. : Remember : if no php.ini file is parsed, configuration_hash is empty, so : get_cfg_var() always returns an empty string, and that's _very_ confusing. How about a default value, as in the standard php.ini? blah = get_from_phpini ( "max_execution_time" ) || 30; Where 30 is the default execution time in php.ini. and blah goes into the configuration_hash, thus get_cfg_var() works as it does now. Any drawbacks or something? Faisal