Re: [PHP] Why does PHP have such a pain in the a$$ configuration file?

2009-05-28 Thread kranthi
phpinfo() will help you to find the differences in the configuration... i do this every time i move to a new host(before uploading any other files to the server, of course i delete it afterward) and change my pages accordingly. most of the configuration settings in php.ini can be overridden by ini

Re: [PHP] Why does PHP have such a pain in the a$$ configuration file?

2009-05-27 Thread Michael A. Peters
b wrote: b) setting up your own server so you can ~shudder~ *configure* it however you like. linode offers xen virtual machines at a very affordable rate that give you complete control. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Why does PHP have such a pain in the a$$ configuration file?

2009-05-27 Thread b
hessi...@hessiess.com wrote: Something that seriously annoys me about PHP is the fact that it has a configuration file which can *completely* change the behaviour of the language. Perhaps you're not at all clear on the purpose of a configuration file. > I am seriously considering moving to a d

Re: [PHP] Why does PHP have such a pain in the a$$ configuration file?

2009-05-26 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 14:10 -0400, Andrew Ballard wrote: >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Robert Cummings >> wrote: >> > [snip] Such settings are usually made >> > available to people who know what they're doing and who need specific >

Re: [PHP] Why does PHP have such a pain in the a$$ configuration file?

2009-05-26 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 14:10 -0400, Andrew Ballard wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: > > [snip] Such settings are usually made > > available to people who know what they're doing and who need specific > > functionality. > > > > Cheers, > > Rob. > > Not *quite* right.

Re: [PHP] Why does PHP have such a pain in the a$$ configuration file?

2009-05-26 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: > [snip] Such settings are usually made > available to people who know what they're doing and who need specific > functionality. > > Cheers, > Rob. Not *quite* right. The problem is that such settings are made available to everyone, even tho

Re: [PHP] Why does PHP have such a pain in the a$$ configuration file?

2009-05-26 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 13:30, wrote: > Something that seriously annoys me about PHP is the fact that it has > a configuration file which can *completely* change the behaviour of > the language. We are very, very sorry that we've created an extensible language that pleases thousands upon tho

Re: [PHP] Why does PHP have such a pain in the a$$ configuration file?

2009-05-26 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 18:30 +0100, hessi...@hessiess.com wrote: > Something that seriously annoys me about PHP is the fact that it has > a configuration file which can *completely* change the behaviour of > the language. Take the following for example: >

[PHP] Why does PHP have such a pain in the a$$ configuration file?

2009-05-26 Thread hessiess
Something that seriously annoys me about PHP is the fact that it has a configuration file which can *completely* change the behaviour of the language. Take the following for example: -- function parse_to_variable($tplname, $array = array()) { $fh = fo