PHP Execution

[Anon]

Hello,

I would like to know may I program PHP as a script file, i.e. Perl, Shell Script that I can run in command line mode.

It is because I want to schedule some php scripts to run automatically but I don't want to put them on the web that others may dig them to run.

Best rgds,
Joe Li

[Anon]

Question of the day #4: "Can I run php scripts from the command line?"

For those who refuse to read manuals or search the forum:

-- quite from the manual --

CGI version

The default is to build PHP as a CGI program.

-- end quote --

'nuff said.

[Anon]

Ouch, we can be a grouchy PHP community... after all... it is Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate if any)...

Here is the local article on shell PHP scripting

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/darrell20000319.php3

[Anon]

To be fair, Vincent generally acts like Santa Claus on this board, stuffing our stockings with well-considered advice and useful tips, so if he wants to utter an occasional "Bah, humbug", I'm not going to complain.

CGI is indeed the easiest way, but not all webhosts support it. You can also run PHP from a script (on *nix at least) using wget. I call wget from a cron job to generate static pages from the database and to send out nightly e-mails to customers. It works great.