Can I have 2 php.ini's?

[danielson2k]

If I have 2 web sites running off the same server, can I have a seperate php.ini for each? For example, for sending mail, the sender is different for each site and therefore a seperate php.ini would be needed...or is there another way around this?

[searain]

you can define the sender and reply to in your programming. i think php.ini only define the sender as the default.

anyway, not a good practice to define different php.ini (i don't know if it will work well. i don't it will work) for different sites. Say if you are going to have 10 sites or more, then will you run 10 php.ini.

Also, if anyone can tell me how to run two php.ini, i will be interested too.

I have a Sun Cobalt server running two different versions php. One is for some sites need the new version and one old php for the PHP web access control panel. So it must be able to do so.

[danielson2k]

Ok, so say I use:

mail(parameters);

in my first page and in the next I use:

ini_set('sendmail_from', '[e-mail]');
mail(parameters);

Would the first page start to use the email address set in the second page or would it use the default set in php.ini?

[searain]

sorry, never try this way. but i think init only works for the script it is in. when the script ends, the init set up value will be set back to default in .ini.

for the e-mail, i always go through the troubles to define the parameters all the time. no special reasons, but sometimes mail() function does work funny, not as expected on my server (sometimes, i have to trim() the email address even there is no spaces before and after). so i used the most conservative ways to define them one by one. this way, it had less chances to be crazy.

like this for php.net:

$myname = "Me Myself";
$myemail = "[e-mail]";

$contactname = "Mister Contact";
$contactemail = "[e-mail]";

$message = "hello from happy me";
$subject = "A mail not refused by Hotmail";

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$myname." <".$myemail.">\r\n";
$headers .= "To: ".$contactname." <".$contactemail.">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$myname." <$myreplyemail>\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Just My Server";

mail($contactemail, $subject, $message, $headers);

[danielson2k]

Thats a big help, thanks 😃