Re: PHP Standalone scripting?
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:18:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP Standalone scripting? | ||
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> I was wondering if there's a way to run php scripts
> on a standalone basis, as you would run a PERL script
> or C program? I would like to use PHP since I have
> written a lot of code that could be re-used to write
> some simple scripts that can run from cron or from a shell
> to do some database maintenance, send e-mails, etc.
>
> If not, are there any plans to build a standalone run-time
> interpreter for PHP?
./configure
make
make install
This copies a 'php' binary to /usr/local/bin
Then a typical standalone PHP script would look like this:
#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?
echo "Hello World";
?>
-Rasmus