Command Line PHP

Anon

PHP is installed as a apache module on the server I'm using.

I'd like to get PHP to run on a command line (shell script). Is it possible to use localhost to accomplish this?

I'd really appreciate any suggestions

Thanks in advance

brandonschnell

just recompile php but leave off the bit to compile it as an apache module. for me i just dropped the bit about apxs when installing php and left the rest of the command line during the configure/make the same.

handle php files just like you would perl scripts (of course changing the paths to where php has been installed).

Anon

If you are running Linux, you could use Lynx to start a PHP script from within a shell script. It just depends on what you want to get.

Hope it helps,

Cheng

Anon

When I needed to do this (and my hosting co only had the module PHP) I used LYNX successfully (as a cron job) on my site as follows:

lynx -dump -source http://domain/filename

You might want to check the other LYNX command line options but these worked fine for me. Also, (obviously) it works as a command line input as well as in CRON... ;-)

Hope this helps
Richard

Anon

Thanks for the help.. Embarrassed to admit, I’m a unix novice….

Is it possible to run several simultaneous processes of the same php script with a shell script or cron? ie/ run script.php four times simultaneously?

Thanks again

Anon

Thanks for the help, Cheng-Yeng..

As I mentioned to Richard, I'm a unix novice. Is it possible to run the same php script multiple times simultaneously with a shell script?

Thanks again

Anon

Can you explain a little bit more what you mean by "running a script four times simultaneously", and what do you want to achieve ?

Another possibility is to run the same set of instructions four times inside a while loop, e.g. :
<?
$i = 0;
while($i <4) :
do something here;
$i++;
endwhile;
?>

Cheng

Anon

Richard wrote:

When I needed to do this (and my hosting co only had the module PHP) I used >LYNX successfully (as a cron job) on my site as follows:

lynx -dump -source http://domain/filename

yep, it works
but if the script is going to take some CPU, you need to check the Apache parameters who stop a PHP process after x seconde.

And it can be nice to run the script in "nice" mode, and this can't be done using apache + lynx

btw, we use the lynx method for some script :-)

bye