Alex @ Net

If you use Eclipse PHP IDE you may stick at difficulty with location of the php.ini. You may notice that the IDE does not load options specified in the php.ini and this makes customizing extensions impossible. I run into this problem today and looked over the source code of PHP plugin for it.
Interestingly, the plugin does not support customization of the php.ini location and it searches it in a folder with php.exe. "findPHPIni" is a function that seems to handle the locating of ini file and you can check its code in the IniModifier.java file. I belive this is temporary solution and the option for this will appear in the near future.
This shows why I like open source--you can solve any problem with the software when you have its source code. :-)