Running PHP script from command line

[RicoCali]

I've grown acustom to PHP for web development. But now I want to do some processing from Linux command line using php scripts. I really dont want to learn Korn Shell to do this. My brain is already overloaded with knowing too many programming languages and scripting languages. I can't keep them straight anymore. So how do I tell Linux that I want to run php scripts in its evironment?

 

[BitFuzzy]

I may be wrong, but I dont' believe PHP can be ran via command line.. 'PERL' is better suited for this task

 

[flugh]

Have you tried

php <path to your script>

? On my system, it's at /usr/bin/php (Mandrake 9.1)

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[ingresman]

As of 4.3 (I think) a special version of PHP has been released with the main build which as command line switches hard coded to allow use in command line mode. If you have an earlier version try /path to php/php -q script.php where the -q means quiet and wont issue http headers. A library (pjp-gtk ??0 exists which allow GUI apps to be written as well.


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