#!/path/to/php output is appearing

Anon

The #!/usr/bin/php line + php output is appearing in my browser when I view a php page. UNX, AIX, Netscape Enterprise Server, PHP4.0.4
I have just tried this :
#!/usr/bin/php
<? echo("Hello World") ?>

And on the browser :
#!/usr/bin/php Hello World

Thanks for help.

brandonschnell

sounds like its doing exactly like what you told it to.

the only reason to place the shell command up top is if you're trying to run the php script as a cgi or if you're executing the script from the command prompt

try removing it and placing the echo command in the body of a normal html web page.

Anon

Yes I want to run php script as a cgi (the module methode doesn't works on my platform) so this line is needed but I don't know why it appears on the browser. I tried another cgi script using a shell UNIX :

#!/bin/ksh
echo text/hmtl
echo <BODY><H1>toto</H1></BODY>

And it works correctly, without the line #!/bin/ksh

If you have any others ideas thanks a lot !

Anon

I'm having the exact same problem. i'm running solaris 2.6 with NES 3.6 and php as a binary. #!/path/to/php prints out on the screen but when i run a cgi script using perl #!/path/to/perl doesn't print out. let me know if you come up with a fix. thanks

Anon

Me too ;-(

We've only previously used standalone php from the command line for general purpose scripting, which works fine with -q to turn off the headers.

But now we are actually trying to use it as a cgi. What I find utterly inexplicable is why the 2 line script:

#!/usr/bin/php
hello world

produces different output from the command line as compared with running as a cgi:

Command line execution:

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.4pl1
Content-type: text/html

hello world

Cgi execution:

#!/usr/bin/php hello world

The cgi executable is behaving differently depending on who loaded it? In particular, when loaded from the command line it strips out the #! line but not when loaded by Apache? I'm not sure which behaviour is reasonable, because php (unlike perl, bash, etc) does not recognise the # as a comment character (outside of <?..?> tags).

On balance, I'd say the cgi behaviour is "correct" but hey, what do I do about it messing up my web page!!!!

TIA
John Sutton

Anon

I am, again having the same problem.... and can not get it to work.

If anyone finds a solution please reply here, and help all of us "unlucky" people?

Thanks

Anon

I read somewhere that it's a bug introduced at
version 4.0.4pl1 and the fix is in CVS (or was
when I found out - it may have been released
by now.)