Assuming you're using php-fpm or php-cgi you can set a param to pass that
as a server variable:

fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY 'http://proxy:myport';

Then you'll have a $_SERVER['HTTP_PROXY'] entry for the global $_SERVER.

HTH,

----appa



On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 3:09 PM, odesport <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:

> I can't modify PHP code. I've managed to do this for Apache by adding the
> line
>
> export http_proxy="http://myproxy:port"
>
> in /etc/apache2/envvars
>
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> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,244407,244410#msg-244410
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