Upgrade-friendly override PHP settings

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How (and where) would one go about customising PHP settings (as in ā€œini_setā€ statements)? I donā€™t really want to add them to the top of the root index.php file since this obviously will be overwritten on each upgradeā€¦

Thanks.

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OK, this seems to workā€¦ Iā€™ve placed the directives at the top of the file config_override.php as follows:

Just below the opening <php on the first line:


ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL & ~(E_STRICT|E_NOTICE));
ini_set("log_errors", 1);
ini_set("error_log", "path_to_your_error_log_file");

seems to pick up fine.

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I normally do this kind of setting by changing php.ini directly.

Is there any advantage in doing it this way instead?

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I have a multi-site environment that uses php.ini files for an application pool that serves several hosts on an internal server. By doing it this way, it becomes site-specific and doesnā€™t touch the behaviour of others, which also means I can dynamically tweak the settings for the site as I need them.

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