On Dec 5, 2007, at 03:15, Michael Thon wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Dec 4, 2007, at 23:49, Michael Thon wrote:
Greetings - I am running php5 on Mac OS 10.4 Intel. When I execute a php command line script, php prints the contents of the script on the terminal rather than executing it. If I run the script with apple's php the script runs fine. the same script also runs ok on a linux box with php 5.1. Any ideas whats going on?
No, no idea. I use the php command line from the MacPorts php5 port all the time. Never seen this.
So, just to be clear, what happens if you put the following three- line script into a file test.php and then run it with both Apple's and MacPorts's php?
<?php echo "hello php " . PHP_VERSION . "\n"; ?>
Here's what I get:
$ /usr/bin/php test.php hello php 4.4.7 $ /opt/local/bin/php test.php hello php 5.2.5
If that's not what you get, then I'd like to see your php.ini.
If I run your test script it works fine. looking a little closer at my student's code I see that the shebang line (or whatever you call it in php is: <? when it should be: <?php Interestingly, the <? version works with /usr/bin/php and on the linux box but not with the macports php5. I did get the <? script to run with this command line: /opt/local/bin/php -n myscript.php which I take to mean that there is something in the php.ini file that is different from the linux and default Mac OS install. Anyway, my solution is to add <?php to the files.
Beginning PHP code fragments with "<?php" is the portable way to do it. This will work on every PHP interpreter. "<?", however, will only work if "short_open_tag" is set to "on" in the php.ini, and is therefore not recommended, since some installations may have it set to "off".