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Difference in my PHP.INI Settings

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:13 am
by darenmatthews
I have a website with MySQL database. Since my hosting service moved me to another server, I have noticed that database searches take slightly longer - long enough though, for users to bail out.

Before contacting my hosting sompany (who I still think are rather good), I did a comparison beween my old php.ini and my new php.ini settings.

I have tried to google the meaning of each setting, but I'm not sure if this is my problem. Can anyone here take a look at these few differences, to see if they may be the cause of my problem? (is it worth exploring: "session save path" and "magic_quotes_gpc"?)

session.save_path
OLD PHP.INI
session.save_path /tmp /tmp

NEW PHP.INI
session.save_path no value no value
http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.s ... e-path.php
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allow_url_include

OLD PHP.INI
allow_url_include On On

NEW PHP.INI
allow_url_include Off Off

Okay, probably a security measure and I'm on a shared server.
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detect_unicode
OLD PHP.INI
(nothing)

NEW PHP.INI
detect_unicode On On

I use charset=utf-8 in Joomla, Wordpress and Open Realty. I'm not sure what effect having "detect_unicode On" has
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display_errors
OLD PHP.INI
display_errors Off Off

NEW PHP.INI
display_errors On On
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magic_quotes_gpc
OLD PHP.INI
magic_quotes_gpc Off Off

NEW PHP.INI
magic_quotes_gpc On On

http://www.jimmysworld.org/article.html?aID=59
and
http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php
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upload_max_filesize
OLD PHP.INI
upload_max_filesize 6M 6M

NEW PHP.INI
upload_max_filesize 2M 2M

Thanks in advance of any help - gratefully received.
- Daren.

Re: Difference in my PHP.INI Settings

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:59 pm
by josh
magic quotes should be OFF
They added it for lazy developers and later realized it was a bad idea. http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php
See the big warning?

Warning

This feature has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0 and REMOVED as of PHP 6.0.0. Relying on this feature is highly discouraged.