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  • zeltus
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    PHP5 - CLI ("php -a") help plse?

    Hi

    I've "upgraded" to PHP5 on my windoze box and whilst I'm stumbling up
    the learning curve quite happily, I'm a bit stuck at how to use the
    php.exe CLI binary.

    I've tried using "php -a" and other than sucking in everything I type
    until I get bored and Ctrl-C it, I can't get it to do anything useful.

    What I hope it will do is accept input from me and return the results -
    am I on the right track or have I missed the point somewhere?

    I have searched the 'net and the docm. but can't find anything relevant
    - so if someone can get me going I'd be very appreciative. Funnily
    enough, I have no problems at all in embedding (OK, so it's only
    simple) PHP in my HTML, running it all thru my Abyss local webserver
    and seeing my pages. I just want to be able to do CLI PHP'ing to test
    out snippets...

    Any help gratefully received.

    Cheers and Happy New Year

    Bill

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    • zeltus
      #2
      Re: PHP5 - CLI ("php -a") help plse?

      Ahh, I found a reference at phpkitchen... it seems I have to use <? or
      mebee <?php to get php -a into interactive mode, and then use Ctrl-Z to
      force execution whenever I need it.

      Dunno why I need this tho' - what "mode" is it in if it isn't
      implicitly <?php... ????

      Bill

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        • Jerry Stuckle
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          Re: PHP5 - CLI (&quot;php -a&quot;) help plse?

          zeltus wrote:[color=blue]
          > Ahh, I found a reference at phpkitchen... it seems I have to use <? or
          > mebee <?php to get php -a into interactive mode, and then use Ctrl-Z to
          > force execution whenever I need it.
          >
          > Dunno why I need this tho' - what "mode" is it in if it isn't
          > implicitly <?php... ????
          >
          > Bill
          >[/color]

          That's because php reads a file. If you give it a file name, it uses
          that file. If not, it reads the file from stdin (the command line).

          In the latter case, Ctrl-Z indicates the end of the file, so PHP can
          then process the entire file.

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            • Pedro Graca
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              Re: PHP5 - CLI (&quot;php -a&quot;) help plse?

              zeltus wrote:[color=blue]
              > I've tried using "php -a" and [...] I can't get it to do anything useful.
              >
              > What I hope it will do is accept input from me and return the results -
              > am I on the right track or have I missed the point somewhere?[/color]

              I usually use the -r command-line option on Linux; never tried the -a
              interactive PHP thing.

              Just tried it on Windows and (after solving a little quoting problem) it
              worked ...


              C:\Utils\php>ph p -r "echo date(\"Y-m-d\"), \"\n\";"
              2006-01-02

              C:\Utils\php>

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