PHP(1)                                                 Scripting Language                                                 PHP(1)



NAME
       php - PHP Command Line Interface 'CLI'

SYNOPSIS
       php [options] [ -f ] file [[--] args...]

       php [options] -r code [[--] args...]

       php [options] [-B code] -R code [-E code] [[--] args...]

       php [options] [-B code] -F file [-E code] [[--] args...]

       php [options] -- [ args...]

       php [options] -a

DESCRIPTION
       PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded
       into HTML. This is the command line interface that enables you to do the following:

       You can parse and execute files by using parameter -f followed by the name of the file to be executed.

       Using parameter -r you can directly execute PHP code simply as you would do inside a .php  file  when  using  the  eval()
       function.

       It  is  also  possible  to process the standard input line by line using either the parameter -R or -F. In this mode each
       separate input line causes the code specified by -R or the file specified by -F to be executed.  You can access the input
       line  by  $argn.  While  processing the input lines $argi contains the number of the actual line being processed. Further
       more the parameters -B and -E can be used to execute code (see -r) before and after all input lines have  been  processed
       respectively. Notice that the input is read from STDIN and therefore reading from STDIN explicitly changes the next input
       line or skips input lines.

       If none of -r -f -B -R -F or -E is present but a single parameter is given then this parameter is taken as  the  filename
       to parse and execute (same as with -f). If no parameter is present then the standard input is read and executed.

OPTIONS
       --interactive
       -a             Run  PHP interactively. This lets you enter snippets of PHP code that directly get executed. When readline
                      support is enabled you can edit the lines and also have history support.

       --bindpath address:port|port
       -b address:port|port
                      Bind Path for external FASTCGI Server mode (CGI only).

       --no-chdir
       -C             Do not chdir to the script's directory (CGI only).

       --no-header
       -q             Quiet-mode. Suppress HTTP header output (CGI only).

       --timing count
       -T count       Measure execution time of script repeated count times (CGI only).

       --php-ini path|file
       -c path|file   Look for php.ini file in the directory path or use the specified file

       --no-php-ini
       -n             No php.ini file will be used

       --define foo[=bar]
       -d foo[=bar]   Define INI entry foo with value bar

       -e             Generate extended information for debugger/profiler

       --file file
       -f file        Parse and execute file

       --global name
       -g name        Make variable name global in script.

       --help
       -h             This help

       --hide-args
       -H             Hide script name (file) and parameters (args...) from external tools. For example you may want to use this
                      when a php script is started as a daemon and the command line contains sensitive data such as passwords.

       --info
       -i             PHP information and configuration

       --syntax-check
       -l             Syntax check only (lint)

       --modules
       -m             Show compiled in modules

       --run code
       -r code        Run PHP code without using script tags '<?..?>'

       --process-begin code
       -B code        Run PHP code before processing input lines

       --process-code code
       -R code        Run PHP code for every input line

       --process-file file
       -F file        Parse and execute file for every input line

       --process-end code
       -E code        Run PHP code after processing all input lines

       --syntax-highlight
       -s             Output HTML syntax highlighted source

       --version
       -v             Version number

       --stripped
       -w             Output source with stripped comments and whitespace

       --zend-extension file
       -z file        Load Zend extension file

       args...        Arguments passed to script. Use '--' args when first argument starts with '-' or script is read from stdin

       --rfunction    name
       --rf           name Shows information about function name

       --rclass       name
       --rc           name Shows information about class name

       --rextension   name
       --re           name Shows information about extension name

       --rextinfo     name
       --ri           name Shows configuration for extension name

       --ini          Show configuration file names

FILES
       php-cli.ini    The configuration file for the CLI version of PHP.

       php.ini        The standard configuration file will only be used when php-cli.ini cannot be found.

EXAMPLES
       php -r 'echo "Hello World\n";'
            This command simply writes the text "Hello World" to standard out.

       php -r 'print_r(gd_info());'
            This shows the configuration of your gd extension. You can use this to easily check which image formats you can use.
            If you have any dynamic modules you may want to use the same ini file that php uses when  executed  from  your  web-
            server. There are more extensions which have such a function. For dba use:
            php -r 'print_r(dba_handlers(1));'

       php -R 'echo strip_tags($argn)."\n";'
            This  PHP  command  strips  off the HTML tags line by line and outputs the result. To see how it works you can first
            look at the following PHP command 'php -d html_errors=1 -i' which uses PHP to output  HTML  formatted  configuration
            information. If you then combine those two 'php ...|php ...' you'll see what happens.

       php -E 'echo "Lines: $argi\n";'
            Using this PHP command you can count the lines being input.

       php -R '@$l+=count(file($argn));' -E 'echo "Lines:$l\n";'
            In  this  example PHP expects each input line being a file. It counts all lines of the files specified by each input
            line and shows the summarized result.  You may combine this with tools like find and change the php scriptlet.

       php -R 'echo "$argn\n"; fgets(STDIN);'
            Since you have access to STDIN from within -B -R -F and -E you can skip certain input lines with your code. But note
            that  in  such cases $argi only counts the lines being processed by php itself. Having read this you will guess what
            the above program does: skipping every second input line.

TIPS
       You can use a shebang line to automatically invoke php from scripts. Only the CLI version of PHP will ignore such a first
       line as shown below:

              #!/bin/php
              <?php
               // your script
              ?>

SEE ALSO
       For a more or less complete description of PHP look here:
       http://www.php.net/manual/

BUGS
       You can view the list of known bugs or report any new bug you found at:
       http://bugs.php.net

AUTHORS
       The  PHP Group: Thies C. Arntzen, Stig Bakken, Andi Gutmans, Rasmus Lerdorf, Sam Ruby, Sascha Schumann, Zeev Suraski, Jim
       Winstead, Andrei Zmievski.

       Additional work for the CLI sapi was done by Edin Kadribasic, Marcus Boerger and Johannes Schlueter.

       A List of active developers can be found here:
       http://www.php.net/credits.php

       And last but not least PHP was developed with the help of a huge amount of contributors all around the world.

VERSION INFORMATION
       This manpage describes php, version 5.3.8.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 1997-2010 The PHP Group

       This source file is subject to version 3.01 of the PHP license, that is bundled with this package in  the  file  LICENSE,
       and is available through the world-wide-web at the following url:
       http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt

       If  you  did  not receive a copy of the PHP license and are unable to obtain it through the world-wide-web, please send a
       note to licenseATphp.net so we can mail you a copy immediately.



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