how to run a php script on shell

[osusano]

is this possible to run a php script thats currently running on my website and i just want to run it to a shell like sample

/usr/bin/php test.php

and the php code like this

<?
    echo date("Y-m-d");
?>

but the result is like this
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.2
Content-type: text/html

it doest display the value of date from echo.

[osusano]

by the way not just to run the screen and display the value..

actually i dont need to get the value of date but i do need to execute the php on the shell and the script im doing has a connection to the database and getting some info from the query.

but based on the script i've made i do just include the connection as include "connect.php";

and i query like this

$sqlQry = mysql_query("select * from tbl_Flt_Sked where flt_num='$var1'");
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($sqlQry);
if ($numrows >0){
while ($hrow = mysql_fetch_array($sqlQry)) {
$flt_num = $hrow["flt_num"];
echo $flt_num;
}
}

so can this possible? and what should i do? and how can i execuate it directly to the shell coz mi planning to put it on cron

thank you in advance