features-php-commandline-php-introduction-7

  • Command line usage

    • Introduction

  • Introduction

    • Introduction

    Introduction

    The main focus of CLI SAPI is for
    developing shell applications with PHP. There are quite a few
    differences between the CLI SAPI and other
    SAPIs which
    are explained in this chapter. It is worth mentioning that
    CLI
    and CGI are
    different SAPIs although
    they do share many of the same behaviors.

    The CLI SAPI is
    enabled by default using –enable-cli , but may be disabled
    using the –disable-cli
    option when running ./configure.

    The name, location and existence of the
    CLI/CGI binaries will differ
    depending on how PHP is installed on your system. By default when
    executing make, both the
    CGI and
    CLI
    are built and placed as sapi/cgi/php-cgi and sapi/cli/php respectively, in your PHP source
    directory. You will note that both are named php. What happens during make install depends on your configure line. If
    a module SAPI is chosen
    during configure, such as apxs, or the –disable-cgi option is used, the
    CLI
    is copied to {PREFIX}/bin/php during
    make install otherwise the
    CGI is placed
    there. So, for example, if –with-apxs is in your configure line
    then the CLI is copied to
    {PREFIX}/bin/php during make install. If you want to override the
    installation of the CGI binary, use make install-cli after make install. Alternatively you can specify
    –disable-cgi in your
    configure line.

    Note:

    Because both –enable-cli and –enable-cgi are enabled by default,
    simply having –enable-cli in your configure line
    does not necessarily mean the CLI will be copied
    as {PREFIX}/bin/php during
    make install.

    As of PHP 5, the CLI binary is
    distributed in the main folder as php.exe on Windows. The CGI version is distributed as
    php-cgi.exe. Additionally, a
    php-win.exe is distributed if PHP is
    configured using –enable-cli-win32 . This does the same
    as the CLI version, except
    that it doesn’t output anything and thus provides no console.

    Note: What SAPI do I
    have?

    From a shell, typing php
    -v     will tell you whether php
    is CGI or
    CLI.
    See also the function php_sapi_name() and the constant
    PHP_SAPI.

    Note:

    A Unix manual page is available by typing
    man php in the shell
    environment.