From: Andi Gutmans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 
> At 14:44 02/05/2002 +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> >At 14:00 02/05/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>On Thu, 2 May 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> >>
> >> > At 13:36 02/05/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> > >Some hosters use this feature to have different settigns for different
> >> > >customers...
> >> >
> >> > Do you know this for a fact, or is this an estimate?
> >>
> >>This is a fact, some hoster here in .nl uses it.
> >
> >Ok then, perhaps we should have an .ini setting for it? :)
> >
> >The only two options I see, in that case are:
> >
> >- Add the binary path to the 3 existing lookup places
> >- Add a configuration option that would determine whether CWD would be 
> >used, or the binary path would be used.
> >
> >I lean towards option #2 myself...
> >
> 
> How about if we don't have a php.in in CWD we fall back to where php.exe is 
> located?

On second thought we *can* have both backwards compatibility AND 
a default PHP installation that is more secure.

The approach is simple:

Load php.ini from PHP_CONFIG_FILE_PATH (unix) or the same directory
as php.exe (Win32).  Do *not* search CWD.  

Add an "include" directive to the INI file.  Looking at the PHP
implementation it looks like this could be a psuedo-setting with an
on_modify function that loads as an INI file using the value as a
file name.  So sites that *want* to load from CWD would add:

[PHP]
include_ini = ./php.ini

So sites that want to be less secure have make the above entry once
in the site's global php.ini.  It is a good thing to require action
and thought on the part of the site to become less secure :).




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