Unfortunately though the ini_set will not work if the server is in safe mode, I believe. Although I've just consulted the php.net website and it mentions nothing of the sorts. I can't imagine that a setting disabled in the php.ini file, with the server in safe mode, will allow the re-enabling of it at runtime.

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