As I mentioned earlier, Damien Seguy has been compiling phpinfo() statistics. He just sent me an email with an update on his progress:

I just published the first part of a series of articles about PHP directives configurations. By gathering 11,000 phpinfos on the Internet, I managed to get an overview of what values are used when configuring PHP.

Here are some interesting statistics uncovered by his research:

• register_globals is enabled 57% of the time.
• magic_quotes_gpc is enabled 76% of the time.
• display_errors is enabled 80% of the time.

You can find his full article at the following URL:

http://nexen.net/articles/dossier/php_configuration_statitstics.php