Re: auto_prepend/append: does the PHP engine cache the

> I tried using php_value but it seems that it can only be used (in the > Apache httpd.conf file) to set *real* php config variables. Correct. Why don't you write yourself a little trivial PHP extension that sets stuff in the MINIT hook? With the ext/ext_skel tool it is really very easy to do if you know just a little bit of C. Then you can have things other than constants as well. Functions or classes that you use often can be written directly in C and performance-wise it beats any other mechanism you can find by a lot. -Rasmus