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Day in brief

Day in brief

Command line PHP

I’ve discovered two things about command line PHP today.  I’ll share them here just in case you missed them too.

First, the “-f” parameter is optional.  I’m not sure when the change happened, but I’m pretty sure back when I started using it, it was required.  Now, instead of “php -f some.php” you can run just “php some.php”.

Second, there is now an interactive PHP mode! This is something I wanted for years.  Prior to PHP I had experience with Perl and Python, both of which have interactive modes.  With PHP I had to resort to a gadzillion of tiny files with snippets of code.  Now I don’t have to anymore.  Just run “php -a” and type away.

Have a look at PHP command line options manual page.  Maybe you’ll discover something else.