How to use php on the command line?

[sam]

Hi,
My question is how to use php on command line in windows

[Erwin Moller]

sam wrote:

Hi,
My question is how to use php on command line in windows

Hi

Only php.exe will execute from commandline, not the sapi-variant.
First check if php.exe is added to the path by simply typing: path
Does it list the path to php.exe?
(If not add it, or go to the directory where php.exe is.)

Now type something like:
php -?

or

php myscript.php

Regards,
Erwin Moller

PS: Maybe you need the file php-win.exe instead of php.exe, not sure. I
seldom use PHP commandline.

[sam]

Hi,
But when i started php.exe through commaind line it give me the black
screen
and the error showing on it is:
Unable to load /.php_gd2.dll file
What this line means please tell me how i configure it or where I can
find this dll file?

[Erwin Moller]

sam wrote:

Hi,
But when i started php.exe through commaind line it give me the black
screen
and the error showing on it is:
Unable to load /.php_gd2.dll file
What this line means please tell me how i configure it or where I can
find this dll file?

Hi,

That file is the graphcislib of PHP, named GD-lib (version 2 in your case,
which is good).

I expect that you did comment out in php.ini this extension, so PHP tries to
load it, but cannot find it.

But it is hard to help you based on the limitted information you provided.
Some thoughts:

Do you have a good reason to run PHP from commandline?

What does php answer if you:
1) start->run-type cmd
2) cd to the directory of php.exe
3) type php -?
(gives some information on how to use it)
or 3) type php -v
(gives versionnumber)

The -? will also give you information on how to tell php which php.ini to
use.
Maybe make a fresh one for this application with the GD-libs commented out?

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Andy Hassall]

On 5 Jan 2007 07:23:30 -0800, "sam" <sa********@yahoo.comwrote:

>But when i started php.exe through commaind line it give me the black
screen
and the error showing on it is:
Unable to load /.php_gd2.dll file

What is the actual error? This looks like you've seen the error but
inaccurately retyped it; it's not worded quite like that.

Is it:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '.\php_gd2.dll' - The
specified module could not be found.

>What this line means please tell me how i configure it or where I can
find this dll file?

The most likely cause is that you need to set extension_dir in php.ini to
point to the "ext" directory in your PHP installation, as it's currently set to
"." rather than the full path.

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