execute php scripts in a batch?

jnmunsey

Wondering if there is a quick and easy way to execute several php scripts in a batch.

Basically I want all the variables and such to be local for each script. Thus I don't think using require or include will work.

Running php 4.2.2 on RH7 Linux.

I want to run these sequentially as well, so not sure if a cron job is an option.

Thx

bubblenut

You haven't really given us a lot to go on, I'm going to assume you're talking about command line scripts. Here's a little bash script which will execute all the .php files in the current working directory, placing their output in files named after the executed file but with .out appended.

for file in $(ls *.php)
do
  php -q $file >$file.out
done

jnmunsey

I guess command line scripts. I don't know php well enough to get the lingo right, but basically each one of these scripts hits a mySQL db and generates static html pages in various folders.

I tried using require and require_once, but had to edit alot of the scripts due to redeclare errors and so forth. Also had to edit the paths in the scripts of the template locations and output folders. I guess the base directory becomes the once in the main script.

I did not know you could calls scripts like below. Will try that.

edit - oh, ok bash scripts. Didn't know what those are until now.

Thanks

Originally posted by bubblenut
You haven't really given us a lot to go on, I'm going to assume you're talking about command line scripts. Here's a little bash script which will execute all the .php files in the current working directory, placing their output in files named after the executed file but with .out appended.
for file in $(ls *.php)
do
  php -q $file >$file.out
done
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jnmunsey

Ok having trouble..

created this test script:

php home/virtual/blahblah.com/home/abc/mainwebsite_html/tickets/dbtest/theater/process_theater2.php

saved it as "update"

then typed ./update

and it runs for a sec then stops/ends with no output or action. The script inside should take a good 5 minuites to run.

I have been searching for the past 30 minutes and cannot figure this out.

also tried
php process_theater2.php

with no success

gardnc

try php -f home/virtual/blahblah.com/home/abc/mainwebsite_html/tickets/dbtest/theater/process_theater2.php

jnmunsey

I got it working. Copying the text above worked and i did not do that initially. Is there a way to do it with out writing the output to a file?

gardnc

That's not writing it to a file, it's telling PHP to run a script in -f (file) xxxxxxxxxxx

jnmunsey

No talking about above:

php -q blah.php > blah.out

This works on my setup when put in a bash script..

Doing this does not
php blah.php

Originally posted by gardnc
That's not writing it to a file, it's telling PHP to run a script in -f (file) xxxxxxxxxxx

Weedpacket

Well, you could redirect the output to /dev/null I suppose, but I don't see why it should work when the output is redirected to a file, but not when it's directed to stdout.