Re: Running PHP scripts from the shell
| From: | andy thomas | Date: | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:09:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Running PHP scripts from the shell | ||
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Jason Wong wrote:
> On Monday 11 March 2002 20:18, andy thomas wrote:
> > Just wondering but is there any way PHP scripts can be run from the
> > command line from a standard Unix shell like, for example, perl rather
> > than being invoked via a browser and running web server, etc?
> >
> > Such a feature would be very nice as there are a number of things that
> > can be done better from PHP than from a shell script - MySQL access being
> > one of them.
>
> PHP can be compiled as a stand-alone program (for use as CGI & thus shell
> scripting). See manual, "Installation" for details.
I will try doing this, thanks a lot for the suggestion.
Andy