php -r

[Daniel Klein]

Does anyone have a simple example of using 'php -r <code>' ?

I had thought that this would work...

C:\>php -r echo "test";
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in Command line code
on line 1

But as you can see, it doesn't. I've tried Google'ing the answer to no
avail.

I'm using Windows/Apache/MySQL and:

PHP 5.2.5 (cli) (built: Nov 8 2007 23:18:51)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies
Daniel Klein

[The Natural Philosopher]

Daniel Klein wrote:

Does anyone have a simple example of using 'php -r <code>' ?

I had thought that this would work...

C:\>php -r echo "test";
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in Command line code
on line 1

But as you can see, it doesn't. I've tried Google'ing the answer to no
avail.

I'm using Windows/Apache/MySQL and:

PHP 5.2.5 (cli) (built: Nov 8 2007 23:18:51)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies
Daniel Klein

Not sure but shouldn't there be some <? ?pairs in there somewhere?

[Rik Wasmus]

On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:27:17 +0100, Daniel Klein
<da*****@featherbrain.netwrote:

Does anyone have a simple example of using 'php -r <code>' ?

I had thought that this would work...

C:\>php -r echo "test";
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in Command line code
on line 1

As always, if you have a space in your command line argument, you should
quote it, so either:
php -r "echo 'test';"

or

php -r echo('test');

--
Rik Wasmus

[Jonas Werres]

Not sure but shouldn't there be some <? ?pairs in there somewhere?

No, there should never be any <? ?around anywhere. Shorttags are evil.

[Toby A Inkster]

Daniel Klein wrote:

I had thought that this would work...

C:\>php -r echo "test";

You need to escape certain characters from the shell. For most Linux
shells you could use:

php -r echo\ \"test\"\;

or (slightly easier on the eye):

php -r 'echo "test";'

Not sure what it would be on Windows, but give those two a whirl.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
[Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
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dhyana.pl/0.3
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2008/01/06/dhyana/

[Dikkie Dik]

php -r 'echo "test";'

>
Not sure what it would be on Windows, but give those two a whirl.

On windows, change the quotes:
php -r "echo 'test';"