Runtime Configuration
The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.
Name | Default | Changeable | Changelog |
---|---|---|---|
assert.active | "1" | PHP_INI_ALL | |
assert.bail | "0" | PHP_INI_ALL | |
assert.warning | "1" | PHP_INI_ALL | |
assert.callback | NULL | PHP_INI_ALL | |
assert.quiet_eval | "0" | PHP_INI_ALL | |
assert.exception | "0" | PHP_INI_ALL | Available as of PHP 7.0.0. |
enable_dl | "1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM | This deprecated feature will certainly be removed in the future. |
max_execution_time | "30" | PHP_INI_ALL | |
max_input_time | "-1" | PHP_INI_PERDIR | |
max_input_nesting_level | "64" | PHP_INI_PERDIR | Available as of PHP 5.2.3. |
max_input_vars | 1000 | PHP_INI_PERDIR | Available as of PHP 5.3.9. |
magic_quotes_gpc | "1" | PHP_INI_PERDIR | Removed in PHP 5.4.0. |
magic_quotes_runtime | "0" | PHP_INI_ALL | Removed in PHP 5.4.0. |
zend.enable_gc | "1" | PHP_INI_ALL | Available as of PHP 5.3.0. |
Here's a short explanation of the configuration directives.
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assert.active
boolean -
Enable assert() evaluation.
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assert.bail
boolean -
Terminate script execution on failed assertions.
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assert.warning
boolean -
Issue a PHP warning for each failed assertion.
-
assert.callback
string -
User function to call on failed assertions.
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assert.quiet_eval
boolean -
Use the current setting of error_reporting() during assertion expression evaluation. If enabled, no errors are shown (implicit error_reporting(0)) while evaluation. If disabled, errors are shown according to the settings of error_reporting()
-
assert.exception
boolean -
Issue an AssertionError exception for the failed assertion.
-
enable_dl
boolean -
This directive is really only useful in the Apache module version of PHP. You can turn dynamic loading of PHP extensions with dl() on and off per virtual server or per directory.
The main reason for turning dynamic loading off is security. With dynamic loading, it's possible to ignore all open_basedir restrictions. The default is to allow dynamic loading, except when using safe mode. In safe mode, it's always impossible to use dl().
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max_execution_time
integer -
This sets the maximum time in seconds a script is allowed to run before it is terminated by the parser. This helps prevent poorly written scripts from tying up the server. The default setting is 30. When running PHP from the command line the default setting is 0.
The maximum execution time is not affected by system calls, stream operations etc. Please see the set_time_limit() function for more details.
You can not change this setting with ini_set() when running in safe mode. The only workaround is to turn off safe mode or by changing the time limit in the php.ini.
Your web server can have other timeout configurations that may also interrupt PHP execution. Apache has a Timeout directive and IIS has a CGI timeout function. Both default to 300 seconds. See your web server documentation for specific details.
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max_input_time
integer -
This sets the maximum time in seconds a script is allowed to parse input data, like POST and GET. Timing begins at the moment PHP is invoked at the server and ends when execution begins. The default setting is -1, which means that max_execution_time is used instead. Set to 0 to allow unlimited time.
-
max_input_nesting_level
integer -
Sets the max nesting depth of input variables (i.e. $_GET, $_POST.)
-
max_input_vars
integer -
How many input variables may be accepted (limit is applied to $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE superglobal separately). Use of this directive mitigates the possibility of denial of service attacks which use hash collisions. If there are more input variables than specified by this directive, an
E_WARNING
is issued, and further input variables are truncated from the request. -
magic_quotes_gpc
boolean -
Warning
This feature has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0 and REMOVED as of PHP 5.4.0.
Sets the magic_quotes state for GPC (Get/Post/Cookie) operations. When magic_quotes are on, all ' (single-quote), " (double quote), \ (backslash) and NUL's are escaped with a backslash automatically.
Note:
If the magic_quotes_sybase directive is also ON it will completely override magic_quotes_gpc. Having both directives enabled means only single quotes are escaped as ''. Double quotes, backslashes and NUL's will remain untouched and unescaped.
See also get_magic_quotes_gpc()
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magic_quotes_runtime
boolean -
Warning
This feature has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0 and REMOVED as of PHP 5.4.0.
If
magic_quotes_runtime
is enabled, most functions that return data from any sort of external source including databases and text files will have quotes escaped with a backslash. If magic_quotes_sybase is also on, a single-quote is escaped with a single-quote instead of a backslash.Functions affected by
magic_quotes_runtime
(does not include functions from PECL):- get_meta_tags()
- file_get_contents()
- file()
- fgets()
- fwrite()
- fread()
- fputcsv()
- stream_socket_recvfrom()
- exec()
- system()
- passthru()
- stream_get_contents()
- bzread()
- gzfile()
- gzgets()
- gzwrite()
- gzread()
- exif_read_data()
- dba_insert()
- dba_replace()
- dba_fetch()
- ibase_fetch_row()
- ibase_fetch_assoc()
- ibase_fetch_object()
- mssql_fetch_row()
- mssql_fetch_object()
- mssql_fetch_array()
- mssql_fetch_assoc()
- mysqli_fetch_row()
- mysqli_fetch_array()
- mysqli_fetch_assoc()
- mysqli_fetch_object()
- pg_fetch_row()
- pg_fetch_assoc()
- pg_fetch_array()
- pg_fetch_object()
- pg_fetch_all()
- pg_select()
- sybase_fetch_object()
- sybase_fetch_array()
- sybase_fetch_assoc()
- SplFileObject::fgets()
- SplFileObject::fgetcsv()
- SplFileObject::fwrite()
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zend.enable_gc
boolean -
Enables or disables the circular reference collector.
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