PHP 5.2.5 and php.ini on Windows
Friday, April 25th, 2008I installed PHP 5.2.5 using the MSI installer, installed Smarty and changed my PHP config file (php.ini) to add Smarty to the path. But according to phpinfo(), my php.ini path was C:\Windows and the loaded config file was “(None)”.
I looked at another previous install. You have to create a system environment variable named PHPRC that points to the location of your php.ini file (usually C:\Program Files\PHP), then reboot.