PHP script can't write to stdout nor to error log

[Phil Powell]

<?php

class FileRemoval {

var $fileNameArray, $isRemoved, $errorMsg = '';

function FileRemoval() { // CONSTRUCTOR
$this->fileNameArray = array();
$this->isRemoved = 0;
}
// --* GETTER/SETTER METHODS *--
function getErrorMsg() { // STRING METHOD
return $this->errorMsg;
}

function getIsRemoved() { // BOOLEAN METHOD
return $this->isRemoved;
}

function setFileNameArray() { // VOID METHOD
global $argv;
$junk = array_shift($argv); // LOB OFF FIRST ARRAY ELEMENT YOU
DON'T NEED THE SCRIPT NAME
$this->fileNameArray = $argv;
}

function remove() { // VOID METHOD
$this->setFileNameArray();
if (sizeof($this->fileNameArray) == 0) $this->errorMsg = "No files
provided for removal\n";
if (!$this->getErrorMsg()) {
foreach ($this->fileNameArray as $val) {
if (!file_exists($val) || strlen($val) == 0) {
$this->errorMsg = "File: '$val' does not exist ";
break;
}
@unlink($val);
}
if (!$this->getErrorMsg()) $this->isRemoved = 1;
}
}

function writeErr() { // VOID METHOD
if ($this->getErrorMsg()) {
$myErr = '[' . date("d/M/Y:H:i:s"). '] ' . $this->errorMsg;
$fileID = @fopen('./cmds.err', 'a') or die("Could not find error
log");
fputs($fileID, $myErr); fflush($fileID); fclose($fileID);
$fileID = @fopen('php://stdout', 'a') or die("Could not open
STDOUT");
fputs($fileID, $myErr); fflush($fileID); fclose($fileID);
}
}

function writeFileNameArrayMsg() { // VOID METHOD
if (!$this->fileNameArray || @sizeof($this->fileNameArray) == 0) {
$this->errorMsg = "There are no files to remove\n";
$fileID = @fopen('php://stdout', 'a') or die("Could not open
STDOUT");
fputs($fileID, $this->getErrorMsg()); fflush($fileID);
fclose($fileID);
} else {
foreach ($this->fileNameArray as $val) {
$msg .= "\nFile: '$val' has been deleted";
if (array_search($val, $this->fileNameArray) ===
sizeof($this->fileNameArray) - 1) $msg .= "\n";
}
$fileID = @fopen('php://stdout', 'a') or die("Could not open
STDOUT");
fputs($fileID, $msg); fflush($fileID); fclose($fileID);
}
}

}

// ----- END OF CLASS
-----------------------------------------------------
// MAIN SCRIPT - INSTANTIATE A FileRemoval CLASS OBJECT INSTANCE AND
RUN THE remove() METHOD

$hasPrintedErr = false;
$fileRemoval =& new FileRemoval();
$fileRemoval->remove();
if (!$fileRemoval->getIsRemoved()) {
$fileRemoval->writeErr();
$hasPrintedErr = true;
}
$fileRemoval->writeFileNameArrayMsg();
if ($fileRemoval->getErrorMsg() && !$hasPrintedErr)
$fileRemoval->writeErr();
$fileRemoval = null;

?>

I have done everything I can think of to get messages to print using
either writeErr() method or writeFileNameArrayMsg() method, however,
nothing appears in stdout nor in cmds.err no matter what I do. The
PHP script is a command-line PHP script called by the following:

php -q /../fileremoval.php $fileList

And I can verify that the files are being removed by the remove()
method every time, that works. But no messages ever appear either in
stdout nor in the error log indicating anything, no matter what I do,
nothing appears. However, if I call the file from the command line
prompt:

php -q /./fileremoval.php[list of existing files]

It works just fine and produces messages. But I am calling this
script from 2 other scripts:

cmds.sh -a --transferfiles --delete -d /me/dummy

Which calls

tclsh /../transfer/archive.tcl"

which it calls

eval "exec php -q /../fileremoval.php $fileList

I traced all of my coding to indicate that everything functions
properly, except in the case of the PHP script simply never producing
any output anywhere unless I call it directly, once again, from the
command line prompt.

I could honestly use some extra pairs of eyes to view my PHP code and
tell me if the code is wrong, or if there is some way that stdout
and/or stderr >> /cmds.err has been somehow either redirected or
overwritten by something else. I speak very little "techie" so that's
the best I can explain it to anyone.

Help!

Thanx
Phil