php.ini and command line

Hello, within a CGI-wrapped hosting environment, we are calling PHP as command line interpreter (not cli). This works fine, except one thing: Settings from parent php.inis are not inherited. This is very annoying. Lets say, there is a script /user/123/index.php and some libraries in /user/123/include/*.php, then settings from /user/123/php.ini are not available for /user/123/include/*.php, even if the environment-variable DOCUMENT_ROOT is set to /user, so PHP would be able to look for settings in php.ini beginning in /user and ending in the current directory /user/123 or /user/123/include. Why does PHP work different here in the command line mode as in the Apache-Module mode? Is there a way to enable php.ini-inheritance for command line PHP? Regards Marten