Re: [PHP] php-cli

Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 08:40:51PM +0000, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>> On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 16:41 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:13:24PM +0000, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 14:15 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Has cli php changed recently?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got a php script (script1) that creates a php script (script2) by
>>>>> opening a file and then writing to it. When I try to run it from the
>>>>> command line script1 is simply copied to stdout. When I run it from the
>>>>> browser it works as expected. The directory has 777 permissions so that
>>>>> should not be the problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>> How are you running it from the command line?
>>> Is there more than one way? I suppose with and without the -f could
>>> count as two ways, but the man page says without defaults to with so
>>> they're really the same.
>> Well you havn't given an example, and just say you're calling the script
>> from command line and it's outputting the script there. Are you maybe
>> just calling the php file without calling php first?
> 
> Of course not. php scripts are not executable. If I had tried to execute
> it directly the shell would have told me that. If I had then set the
> executable bit the shell would have tried to execute the contents of the
> file and the shell would have given several error messages.
> 
> I repeat: is there more than one way to run a php script from the cli?
> 

On *nix, you can add "#!/usr/bin/php" as first line and make file 
executable (chmod +x).

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Dmitry