What is the difference between local value and master value

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Liauchuk Ivan picture Liauchuk Ivan · Oct 22, 2013 · Viewed 60.5k times · Source

When I display phpinfo(); i see two columns: local value and master value. When the web-server will choose local value and when it will choose master value?

Answer

Marc B picture Marc B · Oct 22, 2013

master is either the value compiled into PHP, or set via a main php.ini directive. e.g. The value that's in effect when PHP fires up, before it executes any of your code.

local is the value that's currently in effect at the moment you call phpinfo(). This local value is the END result of any overrides that have taken place via ini_set() calls, php_value directives in httpd.conf/.htaccess, etc...

e.g.

php.ini:     foo=bar
httpd.conf:  php_value foo baz
.htaccess:   php_value foo qux
ini_set:     ini_set('foo', 'kittens');

Given that, the master value is qux, and the local value is kittens.

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