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Konrad Rudolph
Konrad Rudolph

Reputation: 545488

Set php.ini values programmatically

Is it possible to set php.ini values from within PHP? Optimally with a limited scope?

Background: I want to force-allow short_open_tag for the duration of an include command to facilitate content writers’ jobs. The actual PHP web application uses long tags throughout (well, one at the beginning and one at the end, really) but for the content files I’d like to enable the more convenient shortcuts.

The content files are then rendered by a combination of output buffering and require, and the result of this is used to fill out a view-specific template. (I know about template engines such as Smarty but I don’t want to use them here.)

The php.ini documentation unfortunately doesn’t tell how to query/set the configuration values.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4506

Answers (3)

Vijayan
Vijayan

Reputation: 1165

if you used ini_set able to control php.ini settings programaticaly

ini_set('display_errors', 1);

http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php

Upvotes: 1

pgl
pgl

Reputation: 7981

You can dynamically set some of the PHP configuration variables using ini_set(): http://php.net/ini_set. Note that not all variables can be changed at run-time, but short_open_tag can be. See here for more details on what can and can't be changed in which situations: http://php.net/ini.core.php.

Upvotes: 2

user703016
user703016

Reputation: 37945

Would ini_set do the job ?

string ini_set ( string $varname , string $newvalue )

There's also ini_get for querying the configuration.

Upvotes: 6

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