note 27919 added to function.ini-get

The limitation on defining your own INI values is an intended feature of the Zend engine on which PHP is based. However, if you're willing to do just a little extra work, you CAN define custom INI values by adding a single line (or more for multiple INI entries) to the PHP source and compiling yourself. In ext/standard/basic_functions.c look for the following block: PHP_INI_BEGIN() PHP_INI_ENTRY_EX("safe_mode_protected_env_vars", SAFE_MODE_PROTECTED_ENV_VARS, PHP_INI_SYSTEM, OnUpdateSafeModeProtectedEnvVars, NULL) PHP_INI_ENTRY_EX("safe_mode_allowed_env_vars", SAFE_MODE_ALLOWED_ENV_VARS, PHP_INI_SYSTEM, OnUpdateSafeModeAllowedEnvVars, NULL) PHP_INI_END() To add your own INI entry, just add another PHP_INI_ENTRY() line. For example, to create an INI entry called "user.site_name" with a default value of "My First Website" that is modifiable within any context your block would look like this: PHP_INI_BEGIN() PHP_INI_ENTRY_EX("safe_mode_protected_env_vars", SAFE_MODE_PROTECTED_ENV_VARS, PHP_INI_SYSTEM, OnUpdateSafeModeProtectedEnvVars, NULL) PHP_INI_ENTRY_EX("safe_mode_allowed_env_vars", SAFE_MODE_ALLOWED_ENV_VARS, PHP_INI_SYSTEM, OnUpdateSafeModeAllowedEnvVars, NULL) PHP_INI_ENTRY("user.site_name", "My First Website", PHP_INI_ALL, NULL) PHP_INI_END() At this point you can make/install the PHP source as normal and your resulting binary/module will allow the additional ini value(s) you specified. (i.e.: ini_get("user.site_name") will return "My First Website") For more information on how to use PHP_INI_ENTRY, see the PHP manual section on "Extending PHP"/"Working with INI values" -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ini-get.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+27919 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+27919 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+27919