[olug] php CLI basics

[Mat]

Greetings Jack:

The php "command line interface" binary gets built unless you try not to
when configuring with  "  --disable-cli "

On Debian and Mac OS X, the packages will drop the php executable in
/usr/bin/php.   FreeBSD puts this in:  /usr/local/bin/php

A quick way to check to make sure that your command line PHP binary is
working is to just run it "interactively" in your shell:

php

then type in the following and, when done, hit control-D

<?php  phpinfo();  ?>

That will spit out the configuration directives for how PHP was built,
among other things.

Best regards,


Mat Caughron
PHP Consulting