php.ini hacks

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php.ini hacks

• Michael J. Radwin, Yahoo! Inc
• PHP Lightning Talks
• OSCON 2006

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php.ini and Friends

• /usr/local/etc/php.ini
• /usr/local/etc/php/gd.ini
• /usr/local/etc/php/mcrypt.ini
• /usr/local/etc/php/yahoo-sports.ini
• ./configure --with-config-file-scan-dir
  /usr/local/etc/php

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Self-contained extensions and ini variable
expansion

• /usr/local/etc/php.ini
• open_basedir /usr/local/www/htdocs/usr/local/li
  b/php
• /usr/local/etc/php/mcrypt.ini
• extension mcrypt.so
• /usr/local/etc/php/yahoo-sports.ini
• open_basedir open_basedir/tmp

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What versions of PHP?

• --with-config-file-scan-dir
• PHP 4.3.0 (Dec 2002)
• foobar expansion
• PHP 5.1.0 (Nov 2005)

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Yahoo! is HiringAll positions Full Time
Sunnyvale, CA

• Send resumes to radwin_at_yahoo-inc.com or stop by
  the Yahoo! booth in the exhibit hall to see
  detailed job descriptions.
• Senior Perl Hackers
• MySQL Guru
• Senior Developer Tools Perl
• Senior Software Engineer FlexForce C/C,
  Unix
• Storage Platform Engineer C
• Global User Database Engineer Unix, bash, Perl
• Technical Trainer
• Technical Publications and Training Manager
• Monitoring Tools C/C, Perl, Nagios
• Yes, thats right, no PHP jobs. Weird, huh?