i-MSCP - PHP >= 5.6 - Default charset

**Nuxwin** · Feb 11th 2016

Hello,

@Ninos @mrpink @flames @Cool AND any other

We see many users with charset problems since PHP-5.6. Generally speaking, problems arises when customers deploys old sites with a charset such as ISO-8859-1. Indeed, since PHP5.6, the default charset is set to UTF-8.

Even if not recommended, we could set the default charset value to an empty string in the php.ini/pool conffiles (like in older PHP versions). What do you think about this?

NOTE: Don't ask us to add a field in the PHP editor. That is already planned for the version 2.0.0. Here, we talk about serie 1.2.x.

Thanks

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mafioso · Feb 11th 2016

Hmm I would just add a listener-file. By updating to php5.6 admins should know about that problem (new default value)..

**Nuxwin** · Feb 11th 2016

@Ninos

You know the story about auto-proclamed `administrator` which are not in reality... From my point of view, any administrator should be able to configure PHP without having to ask here for a howto but this is not the case...

Can you code a small listener file for inclusion in 1.2.12 faster or should I?

mafioso · Feb 11th 2016

Atm I (still -.-) have no testing server. I can write one for fpm, but without testing, have already a similar listener-file (for max_children).

**Nuxwin** · Feb 11th 2016

Ok

**flames** · Feb 11th 2016

Hello Guys,
I support Ninos' way. UTF-8 is default, and since it is, there are less problems with charsets.
After this change (in php) you just see those admins popping up, who do not really know what they do
best practice is to update old php scripts, if not possible, admin has to decide (i.e. via listener file) which charset he wants to be default on his system. w/o this decision, utf-8 should be default.

**Nuxwin** · Feb 11th 2016

@flames

Exactly what I've answered here: PHP Settings - Default charset value

Problem is that many people prefer ask us than learning/searching by themself... Thus, we loose our time answering those people.

Well, ok, I'll code a listener which will allows to override default PHP values.

mafioso · Feb 11th 2016

@Nuxwin for php-fpm I've created following listener-file (not tested, may only working on pool-level per_domain)..

mrpink · Feb 11th 2016

In my opinion UTF-8 as default is fine and the future.
Customers have to update their content or the admin could use a listener for a transitional period.

Thanks for the listener file @Ninos

**Nuxwin** · Feb 13th 2016

@mrpink @flames @Ninos @Cool

Here, you can find a listener which allows to add or override any PHP configuration option. You can operate globally or on a per domain basis.

Please lookt at it and test it. Be aware that at this moment, that listener is compatibile with Fcgid and PHP-FPM Apache2 httpd server implementations only.

Code

## PHP listener files
### 10_php_confoptions_override.pl
Allows to add or override PHP configuration options globally or per domain.
Be aware that only Fcgid and PHP-FPM Apache2 httpd server implementations are supported.
Note: When you want operate on a per domain basis, don't forget to set the PHP configuration level to 'per_site'. You
can do this by running:
```
# cd <your_imscp_archive>
# perl imscp-autoinstall -dar httpd
```

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