Is there a php (or composer) command to change upload_max_filesize && post_max_size from terminal?

Question

Is there a php (or composer) terminal command to change the php.ini variables upload_max_filesize and post_max_size from terminal to some value directly from terminal, without sed or awk operations?

The reason; having a more a version-agnostic and more backward-compatible directive in my server-environment-establishment script, to change the values of these two variables.

Update

If I'm not wrong utilizing the confd CM (supported in PHP >= 5.0) should be good (I can't test right now):

1. Create something like /etc/php7/conf.d/local.ini.

2. Add to it:

upload_max_filesize = 2000M
post_max_size = 2000M

Answer 1

The reason; having a more a version-agnostic and more backward-compatible directive in my server-environment-establishment script, to change the values of these two variables.

If you're trying to configure a server, you should use a configuration management system (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt) or bake images for immutable infrastructure; trying to hack in pieces of configuration via PHP or bash or whatever will just make you unhappy.

Answer 2

PHP has supported conf.d configuration subdirectories for ages now (cf. PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR in its documentation, this stuff is as old as PHP 5 basically) - allowing you to simply add a small file containing just the snippet of config you need in there, and as long as you make sure it's named so that it's ordered in a way it overrides the defaults, you're done.

IOW you don't go searching for an existing value to fiddle with, you just add your own.

Answer 3

You can use regex and after that change, you need to restart the webserver:

sed -i 's/upload_max_filesize\s*=.*/upload_max_filesize=100M/g' path/to/php.ini
sed -i 's/post_max_size\s*=.*/post_max_size=100M/g' path/to/php.ini
sed -i 's/memory_limit\s*=.*/memory_limit=512M/g' path/to/php.ini

But it is preferable to use Configuration Management Tools