Re: Intro to PHP question

Hi all, I went to a website called php-cli.com and found that i needed to type #!/usr/bin/php -q in the header line. Once I typed that, my script without the HTML tags executed. Thanks again, Jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: Tijnema ! To: Jonathan Kahan Cc: Dave Goodchild ; php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Intro to PHP question AFAIK you can't run a php file directly, or you need to add #!/bin/php or something to the first line, but you can run it with php ../uri.php but i suggest you to run it from a webserver like apache. *if you don't have it, i can give you a few MB to try PHP out Tijnema On 3/8/07, Jonathan Kahan <jonathan@estrintech.com> wrote: Hi all, Dave, I am attempting to use html for learning purposes. My goal is to begin working on a website. Tijnema, I tried the below and got the following errors. I can't imagine the error on line 3 is a tag issue. Jonathan [root@ip-XXX-XXX-XX-XXX cgi-bin]# ./uri.php ./uri.php: line 2: ?php: No such file or directory ./uri.php: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `"D"' ./uri.php: line 3: `$d=date("D");' [root@ip-XXX-XXX-XX-XXX cgi-bin]# vi uri.php [root@ip-XXX-XXX-XX-XXX cgi-bin]# vi uri.php <?php $d=date("D"); if ($d=="Fri") echo "Have a nice weekend!"; else echo "Have a nice day!"; ?> ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Goodchild To: Tijnema ! Cc: Jonathan Kahan ; php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Intro to PHP question If you are running that from the command line, why do you need html? Not sure why you're doing that.