How do I change my PHP settings in my hosting package?

In this article you will get all the information about the basic PHP settings.

How you change your PHP settings in your hosting package

From the Hosting Starter hosting package onwards (older packages: from the BasicWeb XL package or PowerWeb Starter), PHP is available to you as a programming language.

You have the option to change the PHP versions and activate PHP Boost in your STRATO customer login.

You can switch between PHP versions 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 & 8.3 with a few clicks in your STRATO customer login.

To do this, please first log in with your customer number and customer password and select "Your package" by clicking the 3-point-menü next to the right package or by clicking the package name itself.

In your package please call the menu items Databases and Web space → Set PHP version.

On the following page you can now switch between the offered PHP versions.

The change will be confirmed after you save the setting.

Activate PHP Boost

The PHP Boost option can also be activated directly in your STRATO customer login and is available from PHP version 5.3. To do this, click on the menu items Databases and Web space → Set PHP version.

PHP Boost activates a code cache. With this, your PHP scripts will run up to 100% faster. With PHP Boost enabled, PHP will run in FastCGI mode.

Which PHP basic settings are available at STRATO?

The following tables show you which basic settings are used to configure the various PHP versions at STRATO.

PHP 5.3.x – config

PHP 5.6.x – config

PHP 7.0.x – config

PHP 7.1.x – config

PHP 7.2.x – config

PHP 7.3.x – config

PHP 7.4.x – config

PHP 8.0.x / 8.1.x / 8.2.x / 8.3.x – config

Parameter: Register Globals off

As of version 4.4.x, register_globals is disabled in PHP. This means that a PHP script can no longer access information submitted from forms as GET or POST data via global variables.

The transmitted data is accessed via arrays. This means that variables sent via GET can be accessed with $_GET["variablenName"]. POST data accordingly with $_POST["variablenName"].

These innovations serve the security and structure within PHP scripts, and can be easily adopted into existing scripts using the following example.

Previously:

<?php ( desiredname.com/test.php?test=Message )
$text = $test;
echo $text
?>
Ausgabe: Message

After:

<?php ( desiredname.com/test.php?test=Message )

$test = $_GET["test"];
$text = $test;
echo $text;
?>
Ausgabe: Message

runtime-configuration

With the update to PHP version 5.3.22 there is a new limit for the maximum number of fields in a POST request, which is set to 1,000. The default value for max_input_vars is 4,000 and has an upper limit of 10,000. You can change this value manually via your own php.ini file, for example by entering the value max_input_vars = 2000.

You can find a detailed description of this additionally here: https://www.php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php

Read also in the following articles:

• Mit welchen Erweiterungen steht PHP bei STRATO zur Verfügung?
• How to use PHP