How to Find the Location of Your php.ini File

Thanks a lot! I just used the information to solve a magic_quote issue on my Joomla 3.0 website

Mine literally just brings up the strip of code in for actual file… What am i doing wrong?

my form is not submitting the message …I am getting this error …. Could not send mail! Please check your PHP mail configuration……help me..and here is my code….
‘error’,
‘text’ => ‘Request must come from Ajax’
));
die($output);
}
//check $_POST vars are set, exit if any missing
if(!isset($_POST[“userEmail”]) || !isset($_POST[“userName”]) || !isset($_POST[“userSubject”]) || !isset($_POST[“userMessage”]))
{
$output = json_encode(array(‘type’=>’error’, ‘text’ => ‘Input fields are empty!’));
die($output);
}
// DETECT & PREVENT FROM HEADER INJECTIONS
$malicious = “/(content-type|bcc:|cc:|to:|href)/i”;
foreach ( $_POST as $key => $val ) {
if ( preg_match( $malicious, $val ) ) {
exit( ‘FAILURE’ );
}
}
//Sanitize input data using PHP filter_var().
$user_Name = filter_var($_POST[“userName”], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$user_Email = filter_var($_POST[“userEmail”], FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$user_Subject = filter_var($_POST[“userSubject”], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$user_Message = filter_var($_POST[“userMessage”], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
//additional php validation
if(!filter_var($user_Email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) //email validation
{
$output = json_encode(array(‘type’=>’error’, ‘text’ => ‘Please enter a valid email!’));
die($output);
}
if(strlen($user_Message)’error’, ‘text’ => ‘Too short message! Please enter something.’));
die($output);
}
// SEND EMAIL
$sentMail = mail(
// RECIPIENT
$to_Email,
// SUBJECT
$user_Subject,
// MESSAGE
$user_Message,
// HEADERS
“From: =?UTF-8?B?” . base64_encode( $user_Name ) . “?= \nReply-To: ” . $user_Email . “\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type:text/html;charset=utf-8\n”
);
if(!$sentMail)
{
$output = json_encode(array(‘type’=>’error’, ‘text’ => ‘Could not send mail! Please check your PHP mail configuration.’));
die($output);
}else{
$output = json_encode(array(‘type’=>’message’, ‘text’ => ‘Thank you ‘.$user_Name .’! Your message was successfully sent.’));
die($output);
}
}
?>

Mine looks like this: /opt/users/ipg/g/l/ipg.glenatgrandviewcom/php53/php.ini
I’m not even sure where to find that… Any tips?

Thanks for valuable info. i will follow these steps as you shared with us.

great tutorial through and through. simple directions to finding the php.ini file location. Thanks!

Thank you so much for this article and it was helpful for me a lot.