使用`php -S`启动Web服务器而不是读取php.ini文件

Question

I have a local project I am working on. I have at the root of my project and index.php php.ini and local_connector.php.

When I run php -S ... from inside my project. It says that the php.ini is not loaded.

This is the code I have in my index.php

$inipath = php_ini_loaded_file();
if ($inipath) {
    echo 'Loaded php.ini: ' . $inipath;
} else {
    echo 'A php.ini file is not loaded';
}

This is what I have in my php.ini

auto_prepend_file = "./local_connector.php"

The idea is I will have multiple pages that use the local_connector but I don't want to include it in every file. Is this possible with php's local server?

I would rather not set up an entire local apache server, so if someone knows a good way of getting this to work, or a work around. That would be very helpful.