Darrell Brogdon nous rappelle, dans l'espace PHPDevCenter de l'O'Reilly Network, les principales directives PHP:

output_buffering
implicit_flush
safe_mode
safe_mode_allowed_env_vars
safe_mode_protected_env_vars
disable_functions

max_execution_time
memory_limit
error_reporting
display_errors
log_errors
track_errors
error_prepend_string
error_append_string
error_log
track_vars
magic_quotes_gpc
magic_quotes_runtime
magic_quotes_sybase
auto_prepend_file
auto_append_file
default_charset
include_path
upload_tmp_dir
upload_max_filesize
extension_dir
enable_dl
extension

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