Re: Proposal: php.ini environment variable fallback value

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 12:18 AM Michał Marcin Brzuchalski < michal.brzuchalski@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > niedz., 26 lip 2020, 06:22 użytkownik Michael Morris <tendoaki@gmail..com> > napisał: > >> PHP's ini values are already a bit of a mess. You have a global php.ini >> file, and then most PHP ini directives can be set per directory using the >> .htaccess file. About a third can be set at runtime. This makes tracking >> down where a setting came from a bit of a headache unless care is taken. >> This proposal promises to make the situation even more complicated. >> >> Also, what would this solve that using .htaccess files to override the >> default values not solve aside from the rare settings that cannot be set >> per directory? >> > > Bear in mind that .htaccess has a very narrow use and it's kind oh thing > Apache2 related and not PHP specific! > Most major webserver applications have an equivalent to .htaccess. Indeed, IIS can bind PHP flags and values to environment values already if I recall correctly, and has been able to do so for a very long time (though I haven't played with IIS in over a decade so my memory could be wrong on this). You mention Docker - usually I've seen it used alongside Ansible, Chef or Puppet. Each of these provisioning programs can modify the php.ini file used on the container at deploy time without necessitating a change to PHP itself. What advantage does the community gain from moving these decisions from the provision files to the php.ini file? >