CLI and Windows

yawnmoth wrote:[color=blue]
> The portion of the PHP manual entitled "Using PHP from the command
> line"
> states that "The CGI SAPI supports the CLI SAPI behaviour by means of
> the -C switch when run from the command line.":
>
> http://us2.php.net/features.commandline
>
> However, "php -h" says of the -C switch, "Do not chdir to the script's
> directory".
>
> Further, running php -Cr "echo 'test';" results in an error saying
> that
> the -r switch doesn't exist, even though it should if it were acting
> like the CLI version.
>
> This, coupled with the fact that the Windows installer doesn't seem to
> install a seperate CLI exe means that, unless I'm missing something,
> CLI isn't something that can be used on Windows, contrary to what the
> docs say.
>
> Am I missing something?[/color]

I use the CLI under Windows all the time. In <5 it was under it's own
folder called something like CLI, and with 5 php.exe is the CLI.