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#Setting up PHP
Use Flags
In order for PHP to be most useful, it should have as many of the modules installed as will be used. I recommend installing it using the FPM sapi, which manages php session spawning.
Here are some recommended flags:
mysql utf8 threads -readline libssh2 -cgi fpm xcache suhosin postgres mysqlnd reflection session simplexml sockets spl pdo mbstring sqlite3 mysqli soap exif
PHP_TARGETS
The PHP_TARGETS setting in /etc/make.conf lets you select which versions of PHP to compile. If possible, I recommend always using the latest stable version.
As of the time this is written, php 5.3 is the latest version, so I would add this line to /etc/make.conf
PHP_TARGETS="php5-3"
Please note that you can have multiple PHP_TARGETS:
PHP_TARGETS="php5-3 php5-4"
As of this writing, PHP compiles with clang reliably.
php.ini and php-fpm.conf
php.ini
This file is going to be under /etc/php/[sapi]-php[version]/php.ini
So, if I'm running php 5.3, and I want to adjust cli settings, the file is /etc/php/cli-php5.3/php.ini
Mandatory settings
date.timezone- set to your default timezone, for example,America/Detroit
Recommended settings
short_open_tag = On- Allow short tags<? and <?=expose_php = Off- With this enabled, a pointless server header is sent out, and some magic urls are enabled. There's no reason to enable this.
php-fpm.conf
When compiling PHP with FPM, there is another config file, php-fpm.conf.
When starting php, it will through an annoying message if you don't have the
pm.start_servers setting configured.
A good default is to set pm.start_servers = 20