There are many instances where you may want to see what kind of PHP settings other people are using and what better source of this information then the phpinfo() page.
The problem with finding a reliable pool of such pages is that basic search often contaisn many blog, forum, bugs.php.net and alike entries which area copy & paste outputs from users. This maybe fine in some instances, but what if you just want the real phpinfo() pages. The answer is surprisingly simple.
To get the data you need to simply need to search for a element always present on the phpinfo() page such as the "Zend Scripting Language Engine" string and then for a user-agent containing the indexing bot of your favorite search engine. Among the data displayed by the phpinfo() page is a header containing the browser provided User-Agent field, which is always populated by respectable crawlers such as the ones uses by Google and Yahoo. The presence of this value guarantees that the page shown will be an actual page, rather then a copy in paste where the field will be populated by the user's own browser.
Here are the sample search queries for
Google and
Yahoo!.
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