Windows uses the php.ini file to control various PHP directives. Usually the control panel will automatically create this file for you, if for any reason you don't have one in your root directory you can use this skeleton one to create your own.

Simply cut and paste this into a file named php.ini and place it into your websites root folder.

Please make sure you update the sendmail_from field in the .ini file, if you do not do this your scripts will not be able to send emails.

[PHP]

engine = On
short_open_tag = On
asp_tags = Off
precision    =  14
y2k_compliance = On

output_buffering = off
zlib.output_compression = Off

unserialize_callback_func=

serialize_precision = 100

allow_call_time_pass_reference = Off

safe_mode = Off

disable_functions =
disable_classes =

expose_php = On

max_execution_time = 30; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 60; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
memory_limit = 8M    ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)

error_reporting  =  E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
display_errors = Off
display_startup_errors = Off
log_errors = Off
log_errors_max_len = 1024
ignore_repeated_errors = Off
ignore_repeated_source = Off
report_memleaks = On
track_errors = Off

variables_order = "GPCS"
gpc_order = "GPC"

register_globals = On
register_argc_argv = Off

post_max_size = 8M

magic_quotes_gpc = Off
magic_quotes_runtime = Off    
magic_quotes_sybase = Off

default_mimetype = "text/html"

include_path = ".;C:\PHP\pear"
extension_dir = "C:\PHP\extensions"
enable_dl = On

cgi.force_redirect = 0
fastcgi.impersonate = 1;

file_uploads = On
upload_max_filesize = 2M


allow_url_fopen = On

[mail function]
SMTP = localhost
sendmail_from = This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it


[SQL]
sql.safe_mode = Off

[ODBC]
odbc.allow_persistent = Off
odbc.max_persistent = 0
odbc.max_links = -1  

[MySQL]
mysql.allow_persistent = Off
mysql.max_persistent = 0
mysql.max_links = -1
mysql.connect_timeout = 60
mysql.trace_mode = Off

[PostgresSQL]
pgsql.allow_persistent = Off
pgsql.max_persistent = 0
pgsql.max_links = -1
pgsql.ignore_notice = 0
pgsql.log_notice = 0

[bcmath]
bcmath.scale = 0

[Session]
session.save_handler = files
session.save_path = ".\"
session.use_cookies = 1
session.name = PHPSESSID
session.auto_start = 0
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.cookie_path = /
session.serialize_handler = php
session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_divisor     = 1000
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
session.bug_compat_42 = 0
session.bug_compat_warn = 1
session.referer_check =
session.entropy_length = 0
session.entropy_file =
session.cache_limiter = nocache
session.cache_expire = 180
session.use_trans_sid = 0
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry"

[MSSQL]
mssql.allow_persistent = Off
mssql.max_persistent = 0
mssql.max_links = -1
mssql.min_error_severity = 10
mssql.min_message_severity = 10
mssql.compatability_mode = Off
mssql.connect_timeout = 5
mssql.timeout = 60
mssql.secure_connection = Off
mssql.max_procs = 25

[Sockets]
sockets.use_system_read = On

[Zend]
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15


zend_extension_ts="C:\Program Files\Zend\Optimizer\lib\ZendExtensionManager.dll"
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts="C:\Program Files\Zend\Optimizer\lib\Optimizer-2.5.10"