where to put php.ini?

Yii 1.1 Installation and Setup
1

I’ve uploaded an app to my host but some datetimezone functions aren’t working.

On my local linux I have php 5.3 which works fine. My host (hostgator) has php 5.2.

Hostgator has an option to use 5.3 by putting this in .htaccess




# use php 5.3

Action application/x-hg-php53 /cgi-sys/php53

AddType application/x-httpd-php53 .php

but now I get this error




Warning: CDbConnection::createPdoInstance() [cdbconnection.createpdoinstance]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in /home/englandr/yii/framework/db/CDbConnection.php on line 388


Fatal error: Class 'PDO' not found in /home/englandr/yii/framework/db/CDbConnection.php on line 388

Their advice is to create a php.ini file with:




[Date]

; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions

; http://php.net/date.timezone

date.timezone = Etc/UTC

But I’m not sure where to put it? I’ve tried putting it in

/public_html/myapp/php.ini

and

/yii/myapp/php.ini

But it doesn’t appear to be picking it up.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Russ

2

You would need to ask them where to put it… but probably the best place is in the root of your account…

3

Try putting this in your index.php:


date_default_timezone_set('America/Chicago');

This is what I did because I was not able to edit php.ini. Just replace America/Chicago with your correct timezone.

4

@macinville - that worked thank you :)

But I still had problems with 5.3, so gave up - I’m trying to solve the date problems with 5.2 now.

Cheers, Russ

5

You can also try to put it into your .htaccess file:

php_value date.timezone ‘America/Chicago’