Re: $_ENV or getenv to get bash environmental variables.. change php.ini?? env vars

On 7/23/08, mindspin311 <connoc.mindspin@gmail.com> wrote: > > I want to be able to do a getenv('SYMFONY_HOME'); or any env var that I've > setup in my /etc/bashrc for everyone. But apache obviously doesn't have a > shell, so it doesn't know about these. only the stuff in $_ENV. > > What I want to know is how can I read env vars like ANT_HOME, JAVA_HOME, > etc.. in php? I just need to be able to read symfony's root path so I can > stop hard coding it into a config file in the project everytime I deploy to > a new machine. i believe you can add it to /etc/profile and restart apache (possibly need to reboot, not sure) and those are global environment variables everyone receives, including non-interactive shells and processes.