Cli

[harman]

How do i check to see if the command line interface is enabled and working.

[chucklarge]

A quick way to test this is type the following from the command line.

$ php -v

This should result in something like the following message:

PHP 4.3.6 (cli) (built: Apr 19 2004 10:02:14)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

Note the (cli) above -- if instead you see "(cgi)", don't worry. The CGI binary can be told to behave like the CLI binary when it's used, but you need to be aware there's a difference. I'll look at solving compatibility issues between the two, as well as older PHP versions, at the end of this article.

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PHP on the Command Line

[jayant]

you should have the executable of php in 'cli' directory inside the php directory.
execute it to check if it is working fine 🙂