Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:24065 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14797 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Jun 2006 23:17:57 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14782 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2006 23:17:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jun 2006 23:17:57 -0000 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: rasmus@lerdorf.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 204.11.219.139 lerdorf.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([204.11.219.139:39325] helo=lerdorf.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id E1/11-30619-4A10A844 for ; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:17:57 -0400 Received: from [192.168.200.106] (c-24-6-5-134.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.6.5.134]) (authenticated bits=0) by lerdorf.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id k59NHl65005816; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:17:48 -0700 Message-ID: <448A019A.7080000@lerdorf.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:17:46 -0700 User-Agent: Thunderbird 3.0a1 (Macintosh/20060414) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derick Rethans CC: Pierre , internals@lists.php.net, Michael B Allen References: <20060609181531.7f12a5de.mba2000@ioplex.com> <20060610010222.279de768@pierre-u64> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Extension Installation From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf) Derick Rethans wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Pierre wrote: > >> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 18:15:31 -0400 >> mba2000@ioplex.com (Michael B Allen) wrote: >> >>> Is /etc/php.d a standard part of *every* php4 installation? Can I rely >>> on it's existance? Is it's location a configuable option? >> It is a distribution specific directory. Some uses it other not. >> >> The PHP releases (http://www.php.net/downloads.php) rely only on one >> php.ini, which is configurable. > > Actually, there is also an option that allows you to scan a specific > directory for ini files as well: > > --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/httpd/extra-ini Something I'd like to see more distros make use of. I am not sure how to get the ball rolling on that though, but it makes packaging up extensions so much easier when all you need is to drop a foo.ini file in a directory instead of trying to modify a single ini file. -Rasmus