Default proxy settings for PHP4/5

[R13ckJ]

Wow my first post on DevShed!! Hi everyone 🙂

So why am I posting? Well two things: 1. I want to get more involved in the opensource community; 2. I need your help!

Currently I'm working on a new, all singing, all dancing development server. So far I have the following:

• Ubuntu gutsy platform

• Apache 2

• Multiple development ports per developer running PHP4 and 5

• Zend Platform

• PHP Unit

• RoR

• SVN

• and other goodies!

There are a few things I have to do before first release:

• Some shell scripts to facilitate administrator tasks

• A wiki for users

• Setup default proxy settings for PHP

When I'm finished I'll post articles on how all of this was achieved, but for now I need help with the last item (Setup default proxy settings for PHP4/5).

The development server is behind our proxy, which requires authentication. But our live servers don't use a proxy.

I need to be able to use functions like fopen on the development server and still have them working on live (i.e. I need to change default proxy settings on dev). Being able to change them in php.ini would be great, but doesn't seem to be possible.

So far I've looked at:

• Prepending a default context steam: Not sure whether I can use authentication; If it does work, it'll only work with PHP5.

• Transparent proxies, but they don't seem to support authentication.

If anyone knows what I'm talking about and has a possible solution, please let me know.

Thanks 🙂