Re: Going nuts with this, cant figure out whats the prob

Hey, > On Mon, May 15, 2006 7:30 am, Ryan A wrote: > > The thing is, I thought this was bundled with the > > standard package of PHP, if yes, why would anybody > > want to turn this off? > > PCRE got added after POSIX Regex had been in awhile. > > There was some resistance to having two Regexes in > PHP. Makes sense... > I think the default is "on" these days for PCRE. So just my luck it was off :-( Anyway, wrote to my host and they are mostly nice guys there so he is enabling it for me. I did check the manual and it didnt say anything about it being off by default, so I think its safe to assume that its usually on by default. > One viable reason to turn it "off" might be to > conserve RAM -- I > daresay PCRE takes up a goodly chunk of RAM for its > codebase, if > you're really scrimping and saving... This would > make more sense in > something like an embedded PHP app rather than > shared hosting > environment. I'm mostly on shared environments, except in rare cases, and I dont do (sell) hosting so I dont think the above applies to me... but thanks for the info. Cheers! Ryan ------ - The faulty interface lies between the chair and the keyboard. - Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster! - Smile, everyone loves a moron. :-) ----- Fight back spam! Download the Blue Frog. http://www.bluesecurity.com/register/s?user=bXVzaWNndTc%3D __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com