CLI and Windows

[yawnmoth]

The portion of the PHP manual entitled "Using PHP from the command
line"
states that "The CGI SAPI supports the CLI SAPI behaviour by means of
the -C switch when run from the command line.":

http://us2.php.net/features.commandline

However, "php -h" says of the -C switch, "Do not chdir to the script's
directory".

Further, running php -Cr "echo 'test';" results in an error saying
that
the -r switch doesn't exist, even though it should if it were acting
like the CLI version.

This, coupled with the fact that the Windows installer doesn't seem to
install a seperate CLI exe means that, unless I'm missing something,
CLI isn't something that can be used on Windows, contrary to what the
docs say.

Am I missing something?

[Nik Coughin]

yawnmoth wrote:

The portion of the PHP manual entitled "Using PHP from the command
line"
states that "The CGI SAPI supports the CLI SAPI behaviour by means of
the -C switch when run from the command line.":

http://us2.php.net/features.commandline

However, "php -h" says of the -C switch, "Do not chdir to the script's
directory".

Further, running php -Cr "echo 'test';" results in an error saying
that
the -r switch doesn't exist, even though it should if it were acting
like the CLI version.

This, coupled with the fact that the Windows installer doesn't seem to
install a seperate CLI exe means that, unless I'm missing something,
CLI isn't something that can be used on Windows, contrary to what the
docs say.

Am I missing something?

I use the CLI under Windows all the time. In <5 it was under it's own
folder called something like CLI, and with 5 php.exe is the CLI.