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Bug #22011 php -n does not work as expected
Submitted: 2003-02-02 08:13 UTC Modified: 2003-02-03 06:26 UTC
From: holliwell at gmx dot net Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 4.3.0 OS: linux RH 8.0
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-02-02 08:13 UTC] holliwell at gmx dot net 
Hi,

if php CLI was configured:
--with-config-file-path=/etc
--with-config-file-scan-dir=/some/directory
-n switch passed to the CLI scans this additional ini file(s).

php -h says
-n No php.ini file will be used

Does this "No" exclude additional ini-files?


PHP 4.3.0 (cli)

PHP API => 20020918
PHP Extension => 20020429
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Debug Build => no
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Regards
Friedhelm Betz

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 [2003-02-02 18:51 UTC] helly@php.net 
Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself.  For a
list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please
visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions. 

Thank you for your interest in PHP.

Please ask such questions on php-general@lists.php.net.
 [2003-02-02 19:07 UTC] holliwell at gmx dot net 
This switch is not documented so far and if this is not a bug but expected behaviour let it be at least a doc problem;-)
Regards
Friedhelm Betz
 [2003-02-03 05:12 UTC] edink@php.net 
-n switch should also ignore ini files defined --with-config-file-scan-dir. Re-opening.
 [2003-02-03 05:59 UTC] holliwell at gmx dot net 
To clarify my first submission:
-n switch passed to the CLI scans this additional ini file(s) and uses the values found inside.

easy to reproduce:
let config-file-path be /etc
let config-file-scan-dir be /opt/php
origin /etc/php.ini sets register_globals off
/opt/php/php.ini sets register_globals on

php -n -r  'echo  ini_get('register_globals') . "\n";'
php -r  'echo  ini_get('register_globals') . "\n";'

yields the same results, shown that additional ini files are scanned, parsed and applied.
Therefore it seems that -n has the only effect, that the php.ini in config-file-path is ignored, but additional ini-files are parsed and their values applied.

Again: is this expected behaviour?

Regards
Friedhelm Betz
 [2003-02-03 06:04 UTC] holliwell at gmx dot net 
reopening as closed by accident
 [2003-02-03 06:26 UTC] sniper@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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In case this was a documentation problem, the fix will show up soon at
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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.


Now -n will ignore all ini files.
 
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