php.ini directives – attempt to standarize notation

[diceydust]

Description

Currently there are some writing inconsistencies in php.ini directives. Sometimes there are spaces around equals sign (user_ini.cache_ttl = 300), sometimes not (opcache.enable_cli=0). String values are sometimes inside double quotation marks (docref_root = "/phpmanual/") and sometimes not (mbstring.language = Japanese). Finally, boolean values are most often written as On/Off but sometimes they are written as 1/0 or true/false.

The idea is to standarize notation of directives according to some set of rules. For example:

• equals signs should be surrounded by spaces,
• string values should be surrounded by double quotation marks,
• boolean values should be written as On/Off.

Following the above rules, the list of directives would look like this (values taken from production version of php.ini):

user_ini.filename = ".user.ini"
user_ini.filename = ""
user_ini.cache_ttl = 300
engine = On
short_open_tag = Off
precision = 14
output_buffering = 4096
output_handler = ""
url_rewriter.tags = "form="
url_rewriter.hosts = ""
zlib.output_compression = Off
zlib.output_compression_level = -1
zlib.output_handler = ""
implicit_flush = Off
unserialize_callback_func = ""
unserialize_max_depth = 4096
serialize_precision = -1
open_basedir = ""
disable_functions = ""
disable_classes = ""
highlight.string = "#DD0000"
highlight.comment = "#FF9900"
highlight.keyword = "#7700"
highlight.default = "#0000BB"
highlight.html = "#000000"
ignore_user_abort = On
realpath_cache_size = 4096k
realpath_cache_ttl = 120
zend.enable_gc = On
zend.multibyte = Off
zend.script_encoding = ""
zend.exception_ignore_args = On
zend.exception_string_param_max_len = 0
expose_php = On
max_execution_time = 30
max_input_time = 60
max_input_nesting_level = 64
max_input_vars = 1000
max_multipart_body_parts = 1500
memory_limit = 128M
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED
display_errors = Off
display_startup_errors = Off
log_errors = On
ignore_repeated_errors = Off
ignore_repeated_source = Off
report_memleaks = On
report_zend_debug = Off
xmlrpc_errors = Off
xmlrpc_error_number = 0
html_errors = On
docref_root = "/phpmanual/"
docref_ext = ".html"
error_prepend_string = ""
error_append_string = ""
error_log = "php_errors.log"
error_log = "syslog"
syslog.ident = "php"
syslog.facility = "user"
syslog.filter = "ascii"
windows.show_crt_warning = Off
arg_separator.output = "&"
arg_separator.input = ";&"
ariables_order = "GPCS"
request_order = "GP"
register_argc_argv = Off
auto_globals_jit = On
enable_post_data_reading = Off
post_max_size = 8M
auto_prepend_file = ""
auto_append_file = ""
default_mimetype = "text/html"
default_charset = "UTF-8"
internal_encoding = ""
input_encoding = ""
output_encoding = ""
include_path = ".:/php/includes"
include_path = ".;c:\php\includes"
doc_root = ""
user_dir = ""
extension_dir = "./"
extension_dir = "ext"
sys_temp_dir = "/tmp"
enable_dl = Off
cgi.force_redirect = On
cgi.nph = On
cgi.redirect_status_env = ""
cgi.fix_pathinfo = On
cgi.discard_path = On
fastcgi.impersonate = "1"
fastcgi.logging = Off
cgi.rfc2616_headers = 0
cgi.check_shebang_line = On
file_uploads = On
upload_tmp_dir = ""
upload_max_filesize = 2M
max_file_uploads = 20
allow_url_fopen = On
allow_url_include = Off
from = "[email protected]"
user_agent = "PHP"
default_socket_timeout = 60
auto_detect_line_endings = Off
extension = "bz2"
extension = "curl"
extension = "exif"
extension = "ffi"
extension = "ftp"
extension = "fileinfo"
extension = "gd"
extension = "gettext"
extension = "gmp"
extension = "intl"
extension = "ldap"
extension = "mbstring"
extension = "mysqli"
extension = "odbc"
extension = "openssl"
extension = "pdo_firebird"
extension = "pdo_mysql"
extension = "pdo_odbc"
extension = "pdo_pgsql"
extension = "pdo_sqlite"
extension = "pgsql"
extension = "shmop"
extension = "snmp"
extension = "soap"
extension = "sockets"
extension = "sodium"
extension = "sqlite3"
extension = "tidy"
extension = "xsl"
extension = "zip"
zend_extension = "opcache"
date.timezone = ""
date.default_latitude = 31.7667
date.default_longitude = 35.2333
date.sunrise_zenith = 90.833333
date.sunset_zenith = 90.833333
filter.default = "unsafe_raw"
filter.default_flags =
iconv.input_encoding = ""
iconv.internal_encoding = ""
iconv.output_encoding = ""
intl.default_locale = ""
intl.error_level = E_WARNING
intl.use_exceptions = 0
sqlite3.extension_dir = ""
sqlite3.defensive = On
pcre.backtrack_limit = 100000
pcre.recursion_limit = 100000
pcre.jit = On
pdo_odbc.connection_pooling = "strict"
pdo_mysql.default_socket = ""
phar.readonly = On
phar.require_hash = On
phar.cache_list = ""
SMTP = "localhost"
smtp_port = 25
sendmail_from = "[email protected]"
sendmail_path = ""
mail.force_extra_parameters = ""
mail.add_x_header = Off
mail.mixed_lf_and_crlf = Off
mail.log = ""
mail.log = "syslog"
odbc.default_db = ""
odbc.default_user = ""
odbc.default_pw = ""
odbc.default_cursortype = SQL_CURSOR_STATIC
odbc.allow_persistent = On
odbc.check_persistent = On
odbc.max_persistent = -1
odbc.max_links = -1
odbc.defaultlrl = 4096
odbc.defaultbinmode = 1
mysqli.max_persistent = -1
mysqli.allow_local_infile = 1
mysqli.local_infile_directory = ""
mysqli.allow_persistent = 1
mysqli.max_links = -1
mysqli.default_port = 3306
mysqli.default_socket = ""
mysqli.default_host = ""
mysqli.default_user = ""
mysqli.default_pw = ""
mysqli.rollback_on_cached_plink = Off
mysqlnd.collect_statistics = On
mysqlnd.collect_memory_statistics = Off
mysqlnd.debug = ""
mysqlnd.log_mask = 0
mysqlnd.mempool_default_size = 16000
mysqlnd.net_cmd_buffer_size = 2048
mysqlnd.net_read_buffer_size = 32768
mysqlnd.net_read_timeout = 31536000
mysqlnd.sha256_server_public_key = ""
pgsql.allow_persistent = On
pgsql.auto_reset_persistent = 0
pgsql.max_persistent = -1
pgsql.max_links = -1
pgsql.ignore_notice = 0
pgsql.log_notice = 0
bcmath.scale = 0
browscap = "extra/browscap.ini"
session.save_handler = "files"
session.save_path = "/tmp"
session.use_strict_mode = Off
session.use_cookies = On
session.cookie_secure = Off
session.use_only_cookies = On
session.name = "PHPSESSID"
session.auto_start = Off
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.cookie_path = "/"
session.cookie_domain = ""
session.cookie_httponly = Off
session.cookie_samesite = ""
session.serialize_handler = "php"
session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_divisor = 1000
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
session.referer_check = ""
session.cache_limiter = "nocache"
session.cache_expire = 180
session.use_trans_sid = 0
session.trans_sid_tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,form="
session.trans_sid_hosts = ""
session.upload_progress.enabled = On
session.upload_progress.cleanup = On
session.upload_progress.prefix = "upload_progress_"
session.upload_progress.name = "PHP_SESSION_UPLOAD_PROGRESS"
session.upload_progress.freq = "1%"
session.upload_progress.min_freq = 1
session.lazy_write = On
zend.assertions = -1
com.typelib_file = ""
com.allow_dcom = On
com.autoregister_typelib = On
com.autoregister_casesensitive = Off
com.autoregister_verbose = On
com.code_page = ""
com.dotnet_version = ""
mbstring.language = "Japanese"
mbstring.internal_encoding = ""
mbstring.http_input = ""
mbstring.http_output = ""
mbstring.encoding_translation = Off
mbstring.detect_order = "auto"
mbstring.substitute_character = "none"
mbstring.strict_detection = Off
mbstring.http_output_conv_mimetypes = ""
mbstring.regex_stack_limit = 100000
mbstring.regex_retry_limit = 1000000
gd.jpeg_ignore_warning = On
exif.encode_unicode = "ISO-8859-15"
exif.decode_unicode_motorola = "UCS-2BE"
exif.decode_unicode_intel = "UCS-2LE"
exif.encode_jis = ""
exif.decode_jis_motorola = "JIS"
exif.decode_jis_intel = "JIS"
tidy.default_config = "/usr/local/lib/php/default.tcfg"
tidy.clean_output = Off
soap.wsdl_cache_enabled = 1
soap.wsdl_cache_dir = "/tmp"
soap.wsdl_cache_ttl = 86400
soap.wsdl_cache_limit = 5
sysvshm.init_mem = 10000
ldap.max_links = -1
dba.default_handler = ""
opcache.enable = On
opcache.enable_cli = Off
opcache.memory_consumption = 128
opcache.interned_strings_buffer = 8
opcache.max_accelerated_files = 10000
opcache.max_wasted_percentage = 5
opcache.use_cwd = On
opcache.validate_timestamps = On
opcache.revalidate_freq = 2
opcache.revalidate_path = Off
opcache.save_comments = On
opcache.record_warnings = Off
opcache.enable_file_override = Off
opcache.optimization_level = 0x7FFFBFFF
opcache.dups_fix = Off
opcache.blacklist_filename = ""
opcache.max_file_size = 0
opcache.force_restart_timeout = 180
opcache.error_log = ""
opcache.log_verbosity_level = 1
opcache.preferred_memory_model = ""
opcache.protect_memory = Off
opcache.restrict_api = ""
opcache.mmap_base = ""
opcache.cache_id = ""
opcache.file_cache = ""
opcache.file_cache_read_only = Off
opcache.file_cache_only = Off
opcache.file_cache_consistency_checks = On
opcache.file_cache_fallback = On
opcache.huge_code_pages = Off
opcache.validate_permission = Off
opcache.validate_root = Off
opcache.opt_debug_level = "0"
opcache.preload = ""
opcache.preload_user = ""
opcache.file_update_protection = 2
opcache.lockfile_path = "/tmp"
curl.cainfo = ""
;openssl.cafile = ""
;openssl.capath = ""
;ffi.enable = "preload"
;ffi.preload = ""

[devnexen]

Hi @diceydust, do you just want to "fix" the php.inis and/or narrowing down ini values accepted by php itself ?

[diceydust]

@devnexen changeing these values 'per se' is not my intention. What I care about is the way that they are presented inside php.ini. So it is rather a cosmetic issue, which however is somewhat confusing.

Currently inside php.ini there are lot of inconsistencies, like:

xmlrpc_errors = 0
ignore_repeated_source = Off

Both are of a bool type, so why both values are not written as 0? or why both values are not written as Off?

From what I understand, for PHP it doesn't matter whether we write:
zlib.output_compression = Off
or
zlib.output_compression = 0
or
zlib.output_compression = false

So changeing all booleans according to a chosen notation style shouldn't cause any harm. And for clarity and aesthetic reasons it would better if the notation of the directives was consistent.

[devnexen]

Thanks for the clarifications. Would you like to correct all of these yourself through a Pull Request ?

[diceydust]

Done: #17282