Hello,
I'm writing php extension to read php.ini settings from independent
location,
particularly some object or relational database, or, sleepycat db.
PHP ini development concept seems pretty straightforward to me,
anyway I can't figure out how to make a php.ini setting to be "admin
value",
e.g. not changeable with ini_set() function from within php script,
whatever
access type its definition has.
I looked into apache mod_php5 module source, to find out how
php_admin_value/flag is implemented, and it seems there's special
handler, different than "normal" variable change handler.
Type of php.ini variable access is controlled via third argument
to PHP_INI_ENTRY() macro, anyway php_admin_value implementation
overrides it somehow, I mean no matter what kind of access was
defined with the variable definition in php source, if the value
is set with php_admin_value, it is not changeable later, and
this is exactly what I want.
There's also a modification handler for php.ini variables, but
obviously this is also variable-definition setting, I mean, if
e.g. modfication handler for mysql.port is onUpdateString,
I cannot in my extension change it to OnOtherUpdateStringProcedure,
as mysql extension's php ini variables are already
defined in mysql extension source.
Anyway with mod_php php_admin_value/flag does
it somehow (make php ini variable unchangeable).
To be exact - I want to set any php.ini variable inside extension
code - and this is something I know how to do it -
and mark it to be "admin value" (not changeable later) - and this
is something I cannot figure out.
I actually use php as cgi/fcgi, and since I noticed, that
command-line specified variable (-d switch) is not automatically
marked as "admin value" (works according with variable access type).
The only one advanced php api information I could find was "Extending
and Embedding PHP" book,
written by Sara Golemon, anyway php.ini chapter does not say anything
about
overriding original access type setting.
Regards,
DT <pwadas@jewish.org.pl