[SOLVED] PHP Command Line

[The Little Guy]

When I type in:

php test.php

 

All that happens is the Command line prints out the files contents.

 

 

C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\publicsize\robots>php test.php
<?
echo "hello";
?>

 

How can I get it to execute the code? When I ran the php installer, I installed it as "Other CGI", there wasn't a "PHP CGI Binary" to select from.

[per1os]

What version of PHP? Newer versions do not allow the <? tag instead it has to be <?php

 

http://us2.php.net/features.commandline

 

I would suggest reading through that.

[The Little Guy]

Never mind I got it,

 

the php requires long hand php, not short hand like so

<?php

and not

<?

[wildteen88]

When I type in:

php test.php

 

All that happens is the Command line prints out the files contents.

 

 

C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\publicsize\robots>php test.php
<?
echo "hello";
?>

 

How can I get it to execute the code? When I ran the php installer, I installed it as "Other CGI", there wasn't a "PHP CGI Binary" to select from.

Your php configuration probably doesn't have the short_open_tag directive enabled in the php.ini. INMO you should not code with short tags. Using the full tags allows your application to be more portable over different php setups.