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

What's that got to do with Perl? PHP can run standalone just fine on Win95 and any other OS for that matter. -Rasmus On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Matthew Leingang wrote: > 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. ] > > > > >