FYI - respond to the list not to me personally. The list will respond faster
than I will and can often provide extra insight. Plus it sometimes irritates me
(not this time though ;)
I know Microsoft has made most of us forget about the command line, but the *nix
tradition for it is great and
PHP has several ways it looks for php.ini
Environment variables
Folder for Web Server
Folder for PHP executable
Command line parameters
If you want to be able to start up PHP with different configuration files then
passing the location of PHP.ini via command line parameters is probably the best
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