PEAR stomping on my include_path?

[Anon]

so I'm chugging along, I make a small modification to my php.ini, and when I restart httpd suddenly my include_path is messed up, and I'm getting errors because php can't find my include files.

I undo my modification, which was unrelated, and check my include_path value; it is correct.

but when I call phpinfo() I can see the include path value has been changed to ".:/usr/share/pear". I have no idea what is causing this. I searched my drive for other copies of php.ini, thinking I could have more than one, but I don't. phpinfo() clearly shows that the config file is /etc/php.ini.

any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

[Anon]

for the record, it turned out that my editor had hard line wrapping turned on. This meant that some comment lines wrapped in the saved file, so that they weren't commented out. So the php.ini file was not valid, and the values were all ignored and replaced by PHP's default values.

All of which would have been easier to figure out if there was some indication in phpinfo() that default values were being used, or that the php.ini file was not valid.

Sorry to respond to my own post but hopefully this will save someone else some hours in the future.

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