You have managed to confuse the isntallation process and the way Perl works with the way PHP works. If you want to write a custom CGI script for each and every PHP, and prepend #!/usr/local/bin/php, you just MIGHT be able to do it the way you're doing it... But don't do that. :-) Configure Apache to use PHP, and don't make uri.php executable and don't run it from the command line, and use something like: php -q uri.php when you want to run it from the command line. On Thu, March 8, 2007 12:52 pm, Jonathan Kahan wrote: > Hi all, > > Dave, > > I am attempting to use html for learning purposes. My goal is to begin > working on a website. > > Tijnema, > > I tried the below and got the following errors. I can't imagine the > error on line 3 is a tag issue. > > Jonathan > > [root@ip-XXX-XXX-XX-XXX cgi-bin]# ./uri.php > ./uri.php: line 2: ?php: No such file or directory > ./uri.php: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `"D"' > ./uri.php: line 3: `$d=date("D");' > [root@ip-XXX-XXX-XX-XXX cgi-bin]# vi uri.php > [root@ip-XXX-XXX-XX-XXX cgi-bin]# vi uri.php > > <?php > $d=date("D"); > if ($d=="Fri") > echo "Have a nice weekend!"; > else > echo "Have a nice day!"; > ?> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dave Goodchild > To: Tijnema ! > Cc: Jonathan Kahan ; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:43 PM > Subject: Re: Intro to PHP question > > > If you are running that from the command line, why do you need html? > Not sure why you're doing that. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php