php as executable

[juschillinnow]

#!D:\PHP\php.exe
<?php
error_reporting(E_ERROR);

// Set time limit to indefinite execution
set_time_limit (0);

// Set the ip and port we will listen on
$address = '192.168.0.2';
$port = 9000;

// Create a TCP Stream socket
$sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
// Bind the socket to an address/port
socket_bind($sock, $address, $port) or die('Could not bind to address');
// Start listening for connections
socket_listen($sock);

$i=0;

while(true){

  /* Accept incoming requests and handle them as child processes */
  $client = socket_accept($sock);

  // Read the input from the client &#8211; 1024 bytes
  $input = socket_read($client, 1024);

  // Create Input
  $output = get_weather("1");

  // Display output back to client
  socket_write($client, $output);

  // Close the client (child) socket
  socket_close($client);
}

// Close the master sockets
socket_close($sock);



//##############################################
//          Begin Function and Classes
//##############################################






function get_weather($which_grab){
    $objXML = new xml2Array();
    $xml = file_get_contents("http://www.wunderground.com/auto/rss_full/NC/Morehead_City.xml");
    $arrOutput = $objXML->parse($xml);

$date_of_pull = $arrOutput[0][children][0][children][9][children][0][tagData];
list($temp_hold, $humidity_hold, $pressure_hold, $cond_hold, $winddir_hold, $windspeed_hold) = split('\|', $arrOutput[0][children][0][children][9][children][2][tagData]);

$temp_get = split(':', $temp_hold);
$humidity_get = split(':', $humidity_hold);
$pressure_get = split(':', $pressure_hold);
$cond_get = split(':', $cond_hold);
$winddir_get = split(':', $winddir_hold);
$windspeed_get = split(':', $windspeed_hold);
$date_alone = split('-', $date_of_pull);

$temp_all = split('\/', $temp_get[1]);

$temp = preg_replace('/\W/', '', $temp_all[0]);
$humidity = str_replace(' ', '', $humidity_get[1]);
$pressure = str_replace(' ', '', $pressure_get[1]);
$cond = str_replace(' ', '', $cond_get[1]);
$winddir = str_replace(' ', '', $winddir_get[1]);
$windspeed = str_replace(' ', '', $windspeed_get[1]);
$date = $date_alone[1];


switch($cond){
	case "Overcast":
		$cond_num = "1";
}

if($which_grab == "1"){
    $short_send = "$date::$temp::$cond::$humidity::";
    echo $short_send;
    return $short_send;
}else{
    $full_send = "$temp::$humidity::$pressure::$cond_num::$winddir::$windspeed\n";
    return $full_send;
}


//foreach($arrOutput[0][children][0][children][9][children][2] as $v=>$k){
//	echo "$v-$k<br>";
//}
//print_r($arrOutput); //print it out, or do whatever!
}

class xml2Array {

   var $arrOutput = array();
   var $resParser;
   var $strXmlData;

   function parse($strInputXML) {

       $this->resParser = xml_parser_create ();
       xml_set_object($this->resParser,$this);
       xml_set_element_handler($this->resParser, "tagOpen", "tagClosed");

       xml_set_character_data_handler($this->resParser, "tagData");

       $this->strXmlData = xml_parse($this->resParser,$strInputXML );
       if(!$this->strXmlData) {
           die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
       xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($this->resParser)),
       xml_get_current_line_number($this->resParser)));
       }

       xml_parser_free($this->resParser);

       return $this->arrOutput;
   }
   function tagOpen($parser, $name, $attrs) {
       $tag=array("name"=>$name,"attrs"=>$attrs);
       array_push($this->arrOutput,$tag);
   }

   function tagData($parser, $tagData) {
       if(trim($tagData)) {
           if(isset($this->arrOutput[count($this->arrOutput)-1]['tagData'])) {
               $this->arrOutput[count($this->arrOutput)-1]['tagData'] .= $tagData;
           }
           else {
               $this->arrOutput[count($this->arrOutput)-1]['tagData'] = $tagData;
           }
       }
   }

   function tagClosed($parser, $name) {
       $this->arrOutput[count($this->arrOutput)-2]['children'][] = $this->arrOutput[count($this->arrOutput)-1];
       array_pop($this->arrOutput);
   }
}
?>

I want this to be an executable so I can create a background sevice that runs with this port open.

I have tried windows inistsrv.exe to try and create a service, I have tried apollo to compile the script into an executable but that didn't seem to work very well.

Any ideas on how I can use this script?

[thorpe]

just run it from the command line. carefull though, there doesnt seem to be a way of stopping it.

[toplay]

Create a batch (.bat) that executes your script through PHP command prompt.

Look in my signature line for link # 2 to compile PHP into an executable.

[juschillinnow]

the command line is fine, but I don't want the command box to be showing, I need to run it as a windows service. Any thoughts here?

I have done it before, but it was about a year ago, and I can't remember what steps I took. (Maybe it was on Linux???)

[thorpe]

then do as toplay suggested and create a .bat file. something like...

@ off
php -f C:\pathto\file.php

then just run that as a service.

[Weedpacket]

Do "at /?" at the command prompt to get an overview of that program. You'll want to look at the Windows documentation as well. There may be something else in that documentation about running a background task as well.