[Oscailt] php_flags in .htaccess

[lucha]

hi,
when trying to install oscailt 3.0 in a web space on autistici.org (i
thought you might know them), it was pointed out to me that php was not
compiled as a module on their system, and that was a bad habit to force
php options in .htaccess.

So, first thing: i saw in your FAQ about this problem, but the title
was misleading:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/OscailtAdminFAQ#Q1_Why_can_t_I_get_Oscailt_to_wo
but this has nothing specific to windows.

Second: why don't you use php.ini instead? Shouldn't it work fine in
any case?

Third: 2 of the options your .htaccess sets are set to the default
value in PHP, so is it really important to use them?. About the third
one ("magic_quotes_gpc"), it seems to me a better idea to turn this one
on and stop using addslashes on strings coming from Post, or maybe to
check whether is on or not and if it's not to fall back using
addslashes.

I'll probably try do make this changes by myself, and then i'll report
the results :)

and thanks for the work you're doing :)
lucha