Re: Re: [PHP] New to mac and trying to define a php.ini file.

On 04 Jan 2012 at 21:01, Robert Williams <rewilliams@thesba.com> wrote: > On 1/4/12 13:33, "Tim Streater" <tim@clothears.org.uk> wrote: > > Also, if I remember right, Apple sets up Apache so that each user has > his/her own config file inside the conf folder. You should make any config > changes, such as turning on PHP, in there, rather than in the primary > config file. The latter is subject to being overwritten on OS updates and > upgrades, while the former is not. Segregating your changes also makes it > easier to tell exactly what you've changed from the defaults. This is true. >> I'm however carefully ensuring that the client and server aspects of my >> app (which will both run on the user's machine) don't use anything except >> what comes with the standard OS X distribution, so to fix the date time >> issue I do: >> >> date_default_timezone_set (@date_default_timezone_get ()); > > I recommend against this. First of all, in PHP 5.4, this is just going to > return UTC if you haven't explicitly set the time zone, and that's > probably not what you want. Plus, the use of @ here leaves a nasty taste > in the mouth (as it does in most cases). > > Instead, I suggest creating a php.ini file and changing this setting there > by setting it to a specific time zone. For example, in mine, I have this > line: > > date.timezone = 'America/Phoenix' As I hinted in my previous mail, client and server side of my app are always on the user's machine. When the user starts the app, I create an apache config file on the fly and run an instance of apache just for the user. So I'm not messing with the standard OS X Web Sharing. For the same reason, I don't want to start modifying or creating a php.ini file. > This ensures that PHP is always using the same zone no matter what script > is running, avoids PHP errors if you forget to make the change in a > script, avoids you having to modify all your scripts in the first place, > and lets you easily change the time zone used by your applications to > whatever you want independently of the server's own time zone (or in 5.4, > to something other than UTC). Hmm, just looked more carefully at the docs. I see I'm going to have to add a prefs setting so the user can tell my app what timezone they are in. I find it odd that the OS can't provide this information. -- Cheers -- Tim