RE: [PHP-DEV] php-cgi vs php-cli naming issue
| From: | Stig S. Bakken | Date: | Sun, 15 Dec 2002 21:30:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] php-cgi vs php-cli naming issue | ||
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On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, John Coggeshall 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).
>
> I'm a bit nervous about the checking of an environment variable thing.
> Is that platform/server independent?
The CGI interface uses environment variables, so if some platform doesn't
have them, CGI doesn't work on it.
- Stig