Michael Schmitz wrote:
As regards $_ENV superglobal, depending on php.ini (parameter
variables_order) this variable may or may not be prefilled. In my
opinion we should not to much on php.ini and therefore should use
getenv() instead of at least in addition to $_ENV.
One thing about getenv(). I remember running into a performance issue
regarding getenv() and PEAR::Date earlier. My code produced quite a lot
of Date-objects and PEAR::Date fetching the timezone information each
time. So I'm a bit worried that adding getenv() here could reduce
performance. I don't have the time to write a benchmark test right now,
but I just wanted to mention it.
Knut
