Re: how to recognize local or server execution?

John, Netscape! Differences between servers AND differences between browsers AND differences between in-browser and command-line operations! Isn't life fun? Like you I'm messing around with some of these differences as part of a bid to 'convert' an existing set of scripts from browser i/f to command-line. At present I'm putting up with all the HTML output - that's a ToDo 'soon' I guess; but have fixed the time-clock base so that everything is converted back and forth between UTC/GMT and local times. Like you I have rolled-my-own function which uses the following two variables: SetSuffix($argv[0], $GLOBALS[SERVER_NAME]); $ServerName is used to work out which (Apache) Vserver is running the script, whereas $directory is used to work out where code is being run from (at the command line). The main decision being driven from here is whether to run off the 'production' or 'test' database - I've just tweaked that from code I wrote some weeks ago around another global. I guess I'll now have to emulate your plan and now work out how to control all the output, if not logging, then displaying at the command line/green screen as opposed to the browser. Regards, =dn > > Thanks for the idea. I have just resurrected and had another play with my > 'testbench.php', running it from both > > IE/Apache and in a DOS box. > > > > It includes the following code: > [...] > > Thanks (also thanks to the others for the useful comments & ideas). > > I don't have $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["SERVER_NAME"] > or $GLOBALS["SERVER_ADDR"] or $SERVER_SOFTWARE > probably because my server is netscape ("nsapi"?). They > are all blank. Yes I declared them 'global'. > > I ended up with these functions which seem to do the trick, at > least for my server and NT. > > function isonserver() > { > global $PHP_SELF,$argc; > return $argc==0 && isset($PHP_SELF) && $PHP_SELF; > } > > function getpagename() > { > global $PHP_SELF,$argv; > return basename(isonserver() ? $PHP_SELF : $argv[0]); > } > > function getlinedelimiter() > { > return isonserver() ? "\n" : "\r\n"; > } > > The pagename is critical to my site, because the code needs > the page name to recognize certain suffixes and 'special page > names. > > Perhaps it is only sufficient to test for $PHP_SELF and not $argc, > but I threw in $argc==0 anyway. >