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Hi All,

I am trying to do some command line PHP, and I note that when I type 'php'
and hit enter, it does start up PHP. But how do I get it to do anything?
'man php' says that "If no parameter is present then the standard input is
read and executed." But I cannot get to execute anything - either that or I
am not seeing the output.

I have tried ctrl-d, ctrl-c, and ctrl-z. None of them seem to get it to
actually execute. Any pointers?

Sincerely,
-Josh
Jul 17 '05 #1
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Joshua Beall wrote:
Hi All,

I am trying to do some command line PHP, and I note that when I type 'php'
and hit enter, it does start up PHP. But how do I get it to do anything?
'man php' says that "If no parameter is present then the standard input is
read and executed." But I cannot get to execute anything - either that or I
am not seeing the output.

I have tried ctrl-d, ctrl-c, and ctrl-z. None of them seem to get it to
actually execute. Any pointers?


php myfile.php
//Aho
Jul 17 '05 #2
Joshua Beall wrote:
Hi All,

I am trying to do some command line PHP, and I note that when I type 'php'
and hit enter, it does start up PHP. But how do I get it to do anything?
'man php' says that "If no parameter is present then the standard input is
read and executed." But I cannot get to execute anything - either that or I
am not seeing the output.

I have tried ctrl-d, ctrl-c, and ctrl-z. None of them seem to get it to
actually execute. Any pointers?


Should work, it does for me. Run php then type your script (remember the
<?php ?> tags) then ctrl-d.

Alternatively: php < script.php
or: php script.php

add -q to stop the header appearing
Jul 17 '05 #3
"Kevin Thorpe" <ke***@pricetrak.com> wrote in message
news:40**********************@news.easynet.co.uk.. .
Should work, it does for me. Run php then type your script (remember the
<?php ?> tags) then ctrl-d.


Hmm... I have to hit ctrl-d twice.

Why?
Jul 17 '05 #4
"J.O. Aho" <us**@example.net> wrote in message
news:c2*************@ID-130698.news.uni-berlin.de...
I have tried ctrl-d, ctrl-c, and ctrl-z. None of them seem to get it to
actually execute. Any pointers?


php myfile.php


I know that, I am trying to get it to read from the stdin, not a file
Jul 17 '05 #5
Add php.exe to your PATH variable. Then go to a directory where a
php-file is stored. Then execute this file using the command:

php filename.php

if php.exe (for windows) or the php binary (on UNIX-like systems) isn't
available in your path you can execute as follows (assuming you are in
the folder where the php executable is located)

php /link/to/filename.php

Have fun!! :)

Mark

Joshua Beall wrote:
Hi All,

I am trying to do some command line PHP, and I note that when I type 'php'
and hit enter, it does start up PHP. But how do I get it to do anything?
'man php' says that "If no parameter is present then the standard input is
read and executed." But I cannot get to execute anything - either that or I
am not seeing the output.

I have tried ctrl-d, ctrl-c, and ctrl-z. None of them seem to get it to
actually execute. Any pointers?

Sincerely,
-Josh

Jul 17 '05 #6
Joshua Beall wrote:
"J.O. Aho" <us**@example.net> wrote in message
news:c2*************@ID-130698.news.uni-berlin.de...
I have tried ctrl-d, ctrl-c, and ctrl-z. None of them seem to get it to
actually execute. Any pointers?


php myfile.php

I know that, I am trying to get it to read from the stdin, not a file

'cat script.php|php' works just fine
Jul 17 '05 #7
*** Joshua Beall wrote/escribió (Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:41:39 GMT):
I am trying to do some command line PHP, and I note that when I type 'php'
and hit enter, it does start up PHP. But how do I get it to do anything?


Just type. It's waiting for some code. Type Ctrl+D when finished:

# php
<?
echo 'Hi!';
?>
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.2
Content-type: text/html

Hi!
You can also use the typical shell tricks to redirect standard input:

cat source_file | php
php < source_file

Last but not least, you add use parameter:

php source_file

P.S. This is in Unix, in Windows it should work similarly.

--
--
-- Álvaro G. Vicario - Burgos, Spain
--
Jul 17 '05 #8
On 2004-03-02, Joshua Beall wrote:
Hi All,

I am trying to do some command line PHP, and I note that when I type 'php'
and hit enter, it does start up PHP. But how do I get it to do anything?
'man php' says that "If no parameter is present then the standard input is
read and executed." But I cannot get to execute anything - either that or I
am not seeing the output.

I have tried ctrl-d, ctrl-c, and ctrl-z. None of them seem to get it to
actually execute. Any pointers?

Sincerely,
-Josh


You need to enclose your code in <?php and ?> and it seems ctrl-dd works
for me.

--
Mike Peters
mike [-AT-] ice2o [-DOT-] com
http://www.ice2o.com
Jul 17 '05 #9
"Alvaro G Vicario" <al******************@telecomputeronline.com> wrote in
message news:dn****************************@40tude.net...
Just type. It's waiting for some code. Type Ctrl+D when finished:


Hmm... I have to hit ctrl-d twice.

Why?
Jul 17 '05 #10
"Mike Peters" <o0****************@THIShotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e8******************************@news.teranew s.com...
You need to enclose your code in <?php and ?> and it seems ctrl-dd works
for me.


Hmm... I have to hit ctrl-d twice.

Why?
Jul 17 '05 #11
"Joshua Beall" <jb****@donotspam.remove.me.heraldic.us> wrote in message
news:D2******************@nwrddc03.gnilink.net...
Hi All,

I am trying to do some command line PHP, and I note that when I type 'php'
and hit enter, it does start up PHP. But how do I get it to do anything?
'man php' says that "If no parameter is present then the standard input is
read and executed." But I cannot get to execute anything - either that or I am not seeing the output.

I have tried ctrl-d, ctrl-c, and ctrl-z. None of them seem to get it to
actually execute. Any pointers?

Sincerely,
-Josh


Just typing php will start php, and wait for you to type a script.

To run a php script do this:

php -q myscriptname.php

the -q will supress headers, try without it to see what I am talking about
--
Mike Bradley
http://www.gzentools.com -- free online php tools
Jul 17 '05 #12
On 2004-03-02, Joshua Beall wrote:
"Mike Peters" <o0****************@THIShotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e8******************************@news.teranew s.com...
You need to enclose your code in <?php and ?> and it seems ctrl-dd works
for me.


Hmm... I have to hit ctrl-d twice.

Why?

I think, although I'm not sure, that the first ctrl-d parses the code
and the second executes it. At least trying with erroneous code, hitting
ctrl-d once causes the shell to exit with a parse error.

In fact after some experimentation, it seems that the above is the case
if you use php on it's own, but upon running php -a, you only need to
hit ctrl-d once and you stay in the shell once the code is executed,
hitting ctrl-d twice executes the code and closes the shell.

HTH
--
Mike Peters
mike [-AT-] ice2o [-DOT-] com
http://www.ice2o.com
Jul 17 '05 #13
"Mike Peters" <o0****************@THIShotmail.com> wrote in message
news:04******************************@news.teranew s.com...
On 2004-03-02, Joshua Beall wrote:
"Mike Peters" <o0****************@THIShotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e8******************************@news.teranew s.com...
You need to enclose your code in <?php and ?> and it seems ctrl-dd works for me.


Hmm... I have to hit ctrl-d twice.

Why?

I think, although I'm not sure, that the first ctrl-d parses the code
and the second executes it. At least trying with erroneous code, hitting
ctrl-d once causes the shell to exit with a parse error.


Interesting. BTW, thanks for actually reading my question before
responding, I think a half dozen people have posted here saying "just run
'php filename.php' to execute a script."

Guess you cannot complain too much about free help though :-)

Thanks!

-Josh
Jul 17 '05 #14
Ok, from the *nux world, there are two possibilities - the first is to
both chmod +x the file and then add a shebang line (#! /usr/bin/php4) to
the top of the script, then you can run it.

Or you can just type php4 scriptname and that should run it. You will
need to have the php4 cgi version installed not the apache version.

Its quite possible that you can just call php4 and then start typing a
script into it <? blah blah ?> but I dont know for sure.

Its also possible to write a generic script container that uses console
tools such as ob and then evals each line as it is typed, possibly
catching on for words or characters to trigger the eval stage.

J
Jul 17 '05 #15

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