I went ahead and tried following it and I created a folder to hold my php.ini file and then placed an .htaccess file in the folder that was to reference that php.ini file by doing:
$ echo >.htaccess 'SetEnv PHPRC /home/<MY DOMAIN>/<MY_PHP_CUSTOM_FOLDER>'
<MY_PHP_CUSTOM_FOLDER> is the folder that holds my custom php.ini file.
I set my session.save_path =/tmp
The problem is that the .htaccess file in the folder that needs to reference the custom php.ini file is not picking up that path.
after a lot of forum searching I have heard that the combination of cPanel + PHP5 restric the use of custom php.ini files.
Is that still true? and why am I not able to get this working?