note 59314 added to features.commandline

I wrote a rather huge php networking app, with a couple of require's and functions as well as database interaction. apache has been used for live logging purposes. the app works as a daemon, scanning contiously a directory for new files to be processed. now i want to run the whole thing *without* apache, as a shellscript, and i'd like to have all text output on the console. this is the structure of the main script: main.php -------- <style> .... </style> <? require_once(defs.php); require_once(functions.php); ... main(); function main(){ while (true){ /* code */ } ?> When i invoke 'php main.php ' on the console, it just outputs the html style attributes and exits. is it impossible to run a big php daemon app like this ? must i rewrite everything in perl ? (hopefully not) thanks for your help and ideas ! jyrgen ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+59314 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59314&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59314&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59314&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59314&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59314&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59314&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59314&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+59314&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php