I am having trouble finding the active php.ini file when using PhpED.

What ini file is in effect? How can I tell?

Thanks.
Bill S.

I'm not sure what you mean under "active" php.ini. Path to php.ini is always printed in phpinfo. Either run <?php phpinfo(); ?> script, or run php.exe -i. Normally php.ini is in the php.exe's directory.

NOTE: if you have multiple different versions of php (which is THE case if you install PhpED), you can't have just one "active" php.ini because this file has for example extension_dir settings and it means that php.exe will load extensions from this directory. Since extensions for one version of php are not compatible with another, you need correct extension_dir for each version of php.

I need to change the SMTP host to use PhpEd to test my work. It constantly reports it as Localhostl.

I see these php folders in the PhpEd directory and have changed the SMTP host in each php.ini file in each folder but it is still being reported as localhost.
1) php
2) php5
3) php53
4) php54
5) php55

So how can I set the SMTP host properly? Changing the setting in these folders does not affect the change.

Thanks,
Bill S.

On a Windows server, you can setup mail in php.ini:



On Linux, sendmail is normally used (unless you are using a mail SMTP library), which means it is Linux settings that need adjusting to change the SMTP host, not PHP settings.