Modifying PHP CLI behavior

[curlyroger]

I want to compile a custom CLI PHP executable that introduces one minor change. Currently, when you run a CLI script, it spits out an extra newline before any output. I want to eliminate that first blank newline. Example:

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?
  print "hi";
?>

Currently, this is how PHP would run:

# ./mycode

hi
#

Instead, I want it to behave like:

# ./mycode
hi
#

All I can guess is that this is a simple change in the PHP source code but I have no idea what file/line I should be looking to modify.

[tsinka]

Hi,

I checked this and it doesn't print an extra line in my case. It's just

shell#./test.php
hi
shell#

as long as you don't have any empty line between PHP blocks or e.g. an empty line between the shebang line and the PHP code that follows.

Thomas

[curlyroger]

Well I'll be darned! There was an extra line between the #! and <? in my other code. I removed the blank line and that fixed it. Thanks!