command line php scripts

Anon

Greetings,

I recently made the upgrade from PHP3 to PHP4 in my development environment and I'm loving it. I'm eager to make the upgrade in my production environment but...

I have a number of PHP scripts that are called from the shell, usually in CronJobs. They pull data from MySQL and send out email to people, etc.

In php3, in order for these to work they call the php binary the same way a Perl file calls the Perl binary on the first line:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q

But my php4 install doesn't include a php binary (at least, not that I can see). Is it still possible to run these scripts w/o re-installing php3?

I don't want to send these scripts through an HTTP transaction. There must be a binary or some file that can execute these scripts??

Thanks for any help,
Eric

gauss

Hi,

compile PHP 4.0 as cgi.
Something like:
./configure \
--with-mysql --enable-bcmath \
--enable-track-vars --enable-versioning \
--enable-yp --with-zlib \
--enable-ftp \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-system-regex=yes
make
make install

should do it.

Then you have php binary in /usr/local/bin.

Hope it helps,
Gauss

Anon

Yeah,

I figured it out after I posted the message. I was thinking that there had to be some sort of config option to install the mod verion with Apache AND generate a binary.

Basically, I just left the module installed then ran another similar config w/o --with-apache, and did make then make test. Didn't do make install, then I took the binary, dumped it in /usr/local/bin and it works fine.

Thanks,
Eric

Anon

it use ./configure and dont include the --with-apxs then you will get a command line php executable

boyzoid

Newbie question coming up....

I tried what you suggested, but I don't know which file is the binary. What is the file's name after you configure, make, and make test?

Thanx