Re: php.ini under Windows

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Flavien LEBARBE wrote: > 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. It could be my senile brain, but who said anything about changing the current implementation? > 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. You should never use get_cfg_var() in PHP 4.0 (well, almost never, unless you have a good idea of what you're doing). You should use ini_get() instead. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/