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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  exe-
       cute (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

       /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
		      The configuration file for the CLI version of PHP.

       /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini
		      The configuration file for the CGI version of PHP.

       /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
		      The configuration file for the version of PHP that apache2 uses.

EXAMPLES

       php -r 'echo "Hello World
";'
	    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 webserver. 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)."
";'
	    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
";'
	    Using this PHP command you can count the lines being input.

       php -R '@$l+=count(file($argn));' -E 'echo "Lines:$l
";'
	    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
"; 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 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.10.

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
       license@php.net so we can mail you a copy immediately.

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