Re: php-cgi vs php-cli naming issue

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 15:48 15/12/2002, Derick Rethans wrote: > >I see that renaming the CGI to php-cgi might break things indeed, and > >that's never a good idea. But so is changing the name of the CLI (php) > >to something else. It also breaks things, not only for me, but also for > >countless others using the CLI with the name 'php'. We also need to > >think about these users as well. This leaves my opinion that i'm -1 on > >renaming the CLI to something else, and i'm a -0 (yes this changed :) on > >renaming the CGI. This leaves the (IMO) only possible solution: > >integrate them back into one binary and adding some magic which triggers > >CLI or CGI mode (perhaps to check for some environment variable). > > This is what we used to have. Maybe we can have a 'surefire' switch that > ensures PHP starts up in CLI mode, so that invoking PHP from within a CGI > won't cause it to run as a CGI itself? That sounds like it is needed. I only have one concern with integrating them, and that is how we are going to handle building the CLI/CGI and another sapi (like the apache module) at the same time. A lot of people do think this is quite useful. I dont see much problems though with this. Another point might be that not all extensions (like ncurses) are very useful in a CGI environment, but as I see that people using ncurses with PHP are pretty sparse, they can always recompile PHP if they really do not want the ncurses extension in their CGI. Derick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------