Commandline php syntax checking

[Anon]

<p>I code perl in vim.... and have a nice, simple little macro* that saves the file (to a temp name), then runs it with perl -cw (which checks the syntax).</p>

<p>I'd like, if possible, to do the same with php.... but, I can't find out (on my standard installs) how to go about this... I've install php from the debian packages (so this may be a limiation, but I've checked on systems where I've done custom installs, and can't seem to find a stand alone binary)</p>

<p>Anyone got any hints?</p>

<p>Cheers</p>

<p>Malach</p>

<p>*for those that are interested.....<br>
map &lt;f1&gt; :w! vimtemp.pl &lt;CR&gt; :!perl -cw vimtemp.pl &gt; ~/aj 2&gt;&1 &lt;CR&gt;:new&lt;CR&gt;:edit ~/aj&lt;CR&gt; <br>
map &lt;f2&gt; :close&lt;CR&gt; </p>

[Anon]

OK, it looks like the HTML formatting is irrelevant.... that'll teach me to get confused between sites 🙂

Apologies to anyone offended by it.

[Anon]

PHP is usually installed as a module for apache, so without a binary.

If you want a binary you'll probably have to download the source from www.php.net and compile it. The manual will tell you how to compile.