I need to run a legacy PHP application in a shared hosting environment. I have promised my customer I\'ll support that legacy application for some time but I found that it d
register_long_arrays works for 5.3, but they nuked this in php 5.4
register_long_arrays
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.register-long-arrays
And yes, this setting is labled PHP_INI_PERDIR, so you can set it via individual .htaccess or individual ini files, as well as set it globally.
PHP_INI_PERDIR