Re: can I run php on my wintel as a non-web script language

Dear Alan, You may be ready to start learning perl... :-) --Matt ---------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Leingang http://www.math.rutgers.edu/ Rutgers University leingang@math.rutgers.edu Department of Mathematics "This signature needs no quote." On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alan Tu wrote: > Hello, > > I think PHP is awesome. A thought just occurred to me. PHP has tons of text > and file manipulation functions. Can I run the PHP "interpreter" on its own > on my Win 98 machine? For example, I downloaded the php distribution for > windows and there is the cgi binary. Can I do > > php myscript.php > > and assume the output is to the screen? That would be cool. I wonder how > functions like mail() would work, however. Would the windows PHP use winsock > to do this function? > > If this works, this has great promise, at least for me. Its like batch > file/scripting for windows on steroids, without me having to learn VB Script > or some other inferior language. > > Alan > > > [ Part 140.2, Application/X-PKCS7-SIGNATURE 3.9KB. ] > [ Unable to print this part. ] >