Re: OK, So I am new to these List. Win2000 help!

John A. Thomason wrote:

Thanks, that did it. And yes, I am trying to run this as a shell script. Thank you very much. John. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Nichel" <jnichel@by-tor.com> To: "John A. Thomason" <johnt@divector.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 10:01 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] OK, So I am new to these List. Win2000 help!

John A. Thomason wrote:

The following is my output in the command prompt window(DOS Prompt?) C:\PHP>hello.php Content-type: text/html X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.2 !#C:\php\; echo"Hello World!"; if ($foo): echo "yep\n"; elseif ($bar): echo "almost\n"; else: echo "nope\n"; endif; phpinfo(); C:\PHP> And the following is the PHP code to generate it. !#C:\php\; echo"Hello World!"; if ($foo): echo "yep\n"; elseif ($bar): echo "almost\n"; else: echo "nope\n"; endif; phpinfo(); Now, I know that the variables are not set, so they should be false, but

the

output just displays a "listing" of the code and doesn't process it. In

the

documentation, it states that PHP can be run from the command prompt,

like a

batch file. Now what am I doing wrong. I do have it working correctly with an Apache server, that I am using backend. and my install dir is "C:\php", and it is listed first in the path. John A. Thomason johnt@divector.com

Looks like you're trying to run it as a shell script, or a cgi program. Replace the sh-bang on the first line with <?php and make sure the last line of the script is ?> eg: <?php echo"Hello World!"; if ($foo): echo "yep\n"; elseif ($bar): echo "almost\n"; else: echo "nope\n"; endif; phpinfo(); ?>

Yeah, you just need to enclose the actual script in the opening/closing php tags (<?php and ?>). And to run it as a shell script, you can either call the script as... c:\path\to\php\php.exe filename.php (or just 'php filename.php' if the php interperter is in your path), or put the sh-bang as the first line (before the opening php tag).