note 52237 added to features.commandline

In a bid to save time out of lives when calling up php from the Command Line on Mac OS X. I just wasted hours on this. Having written a routine which used the MCRYPT library, and tested it via a browser, I then set up a crontab to run the script from the command line every hour (to do automated backups from mysql using mysqldump, encrypt them using mcrypt, then email them and ftp them off to remote locations). Everything worked fine from the browser, but failed every time from the cron task with "Call to undefined function: mcrypt [whatever]". Only after much searching do I realise that the CGI and CLI versions are differently compiled, and have different modules attached (I'm using the entropy.ch install for Mac OS-X, php v4.3.2 and mysql v4.0.18). I still can not find a way to resolve the problem, so I have decided instead to remove the script from the SSL side of the server, and run it using a crontab with CURL to localhost or 127.0.0.1 in order that it will run through Apache's php module. Just thought this might help some other people tearing their hair out. If anyone knows a quick fix to add the mcrypt module onto the CLI php without any tricky re-installing, it'd be really helpful. Meantime the workaround does the job, not as neatly though. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+52237 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52237&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52237&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52237&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52237&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+52237&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+52237&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php