The PHP Configuration File01/11/2001 One of the most powerful
features of PHP is the ability to customize its behavior through
a configuration file. In this first article, we're going to
cover some of the ways the php.ini file can be used and how it
might help you. The second article will outline in detail many
of the more frequently used directives of the Using the PHP
configuration file can make administration of PHP as simple as
administration of Apache! Depending on your web server
preferences, that could be good or bad. But we'll just assume
it's good for the sake of this article. The php.ini file is used
by PHP to simplify post-installation configuration of PHP and
gives you one place for all of PHP's runtime configurations.
Wouldn't it just be a pain to have to recompile PHP for every
little change in behavior? When PHP fires up its engines, one of
the first thing it does is to look for the php.ini file so that
it can read into memory the directives defined therein. It looks
for php.ini in the current