Runtime Configuration

The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.

FFI Configure Options

Name	Default	Changeable	Changelog
ffi.enable	"preload"	PHP_INI_SYSTEM

For further details and definitions of the PHP_INI_* modes, see the Where a configuration setting may be set.

Here's a short explanation of the configuration directives.

ffi.enable string

Allows enabling ("true") or disabling ("false") FFI API usage, or restricting it only to the CLI SAPI and preloaded files ("preload").

The FFI API restrictions only affect the FFI class, but not overloaded functions of FFI\CData objects. This means that it is possible to create some FFI\CData objects in preloaded files, and then to use these directly in PHP scripts.