Ryan A wrote:
Hey, I am new to CLI and using PHP to run shell but need to know it so am getting my feet wet, hopefully with your help :-) Now when I said three quickies, I mean three PHP RELATED quickies of course...if you thought anything otherwise... you have a wicked mind. Here goes: 1. I start my CLI scripts with: #!/usr/local/etc/php as thats the path on my machine... the problem is some of these scripts will have to be installed on clients machines by them... any easy way for them to find out whats the path PHP is installed on their machine? (this q is more of a doubt really) is it the same as $_SERVER["include_path"]
The canonical way: #!/usr/bin/env php This will call the first php executable in $PATH, and is generally used when portability in scripts is desired.
3. This should be a rather simple question but I just confused myself after reading/searching google (i do that to myself sometimes, totally unintentional really) Can I run CLI/Shell scripts eg: scripts that began with the #!<php path> on machines that have PHP loaded as a CGI and as a module or only as a CGI or only as a module?
Well, if you use the "canonical way" I describe above, one problem I foresee is that the cgi-bin directory is hardly ever in $PATH. . . HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- How many people work here? Oh, about half. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
