PHP executable path help

[Andrew Hearn]

Hi,

I'm a bit of a newbie, seeking help on how to run a .php from the shell.

I'm running debian, with Apache-ssl which is compiled with mod_php4. PHP
for web sites works great.

However, to run a php script from the shell, do I need to install php
from scratch?

Thanks

Andrew Hearn

[Daniel Tryba]

Andrew Hearn <an*********@yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm a bit of a newbie, seeking help on how to run a .php from the shell.

I'm running debian, with Apache-ssl which is compiled with mod_php4. PHP
for web sites works great.

However, to run a php script from the shell, do I need to install php
from scratch?

No, just install the php-cgi packages (php4-cgi*). This contains
/usr/bin/php4 which you can use to run php scripts. Either use
'php4 /foo/bar.php' or

foo.php:
#!/usr/bin/php4
<?php
echo "Hello world!\n";
?>

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Daniel Tryba

[Andrew Hearn]

Daniel Tryba wrote:

Andrew Hearn <an*********@yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm a bit of a newbie, seeking help on how to run a .php from the shell.

I'm running debian, with Apache-ssl which is compiled with mod_php4. PHP
for web sites works great.

However, to run a php script from the shell, do I need to install php
from scratch?

No, just install the php-cgi packages (php4-cgi*). This contains
/usr/bin/php4 which you can use to run php scripts. Either use
'php4 /foo/bar.php' or

foo.php:
#!/usr/bin/php4
<?php
echo "Hello world!\n";
?>

Thanks for the help, this has worked... However I need IMAP support, is
it possible to compile php4-cgi with IMAP support?

Is it as simple as following the instructions at:
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.imap.php

Thank you!

Andrew Hearn.

[Daniel Tryba]

Andrew Hearn <an*********@yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm running debian, with Apache-ssl which is compiled with mod_php4. PHP
for web sites works great.

However, to run a php script from the shell, do I need to install php
from scratch?

install the php-cgi packages (php4-cgi*)

Thanks for the help, this has worked... However I need IMAP support, is
it possible to compile php4-cgi with IMAP support?

To me it's unclear if you are using the packges from your distribution
or your compiling yourself, but in the first case install php4-imap (and
do a "dpkg -l 'php4*'" to find out what modules are available).

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Daniel Tryba

[Shawn Wilson]

Andrew Hearn wrote:

Hi,

I'm a bit of a newbie, seeking help on how to run a .php from the shell.

I'm running debian, with Apache-ssl which is compiled with mod_php4. PHP
for web sites works great.

However, to run a php script from the shell, do I need to install php
from scratch?

Thanks

Andrew Hearn

try "whereis php". It should show you where the executable is.

Regards,
Shawn
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Shawn Wilson
sh***@glassgiant.com
http://www.glassgiant.com