Re: Re: Adding a way to retreive compile options at runtime

Joe Watkins <krakjoe@php.net> wrote: >Something that hasn't been mentioned, installation of software like >wordpress or whatever, might be able to offer advice to the end user >based on the configuration defaults, regardless of ini settings. Le me repeat what I said in this thread using other words: No, it can't. In a typical case (PHP from distribution with "all" extensions shared) this has *no* relevance regarding the running system. The extensions loaded might be built completely different from what's said there. Provide the information needed by constants or function calls from an extenson or whatever makes sense, don't advocate to do the wrong thing. johannes