[SOLVED] PHP CLI Windows Environment Variable?

[AbydosGater]

Hey Guys,

I recently had to uninstall Apache2Triad due to problems with PHP on the command line.

I now have WAMPserver installed and everything looks to be going good.

 

One question i hope someone could help me with. When i was using A2T, "PHP" was a recognised command for cmd. But now that it is uninstalled it is not.

 

IE: To run a php script i just had to type "php c:\path\2\file.php" and it would run the file.

Now thats not working.. Would anyone know how i could add that back into the System so it would work again?

 

Thanks,

Andy

[wildteen88]

You'll need to add the php folder to the Windows PATH variable

 

Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced tab > Environment Variables

 

Select the PATH from the system environment variables box and press edit button. Press the End key on your keyword now type ;C:/wamp/php; (NOTE: DO NOT DELETE ANYTHING THAT IS ALREADY SET) Click Ok on all remaining windows. Now restart Windows for Windows to apply the changes made.

 

Open up a command prompt php should now be recognised.

[AbydosGater]

Hey Wildteen88 Thanks for another fast great answer,

 

Will test this now! Restarting!

 

Andy

[AbydosGater]

Hey back up and running! Yes Yay wildteen your Great!

Thank you so much

 

Just one other problem im getting now. I will post here instead of posting a whole new topic.

 

Most of my dev scripts i just use short opening tags (<?  and  ?>) .. And in my NEW php.ini file i have:

short_open_tag = On

 

But even with that done and all apache and other services restarted..

 

Im when i run my script via command line it just displays the code not actually runs the script.

 

When i change the <? to <?php on one of my scripts everything runs fine..

 

But i cant go through hundreds of testing files to change them all..

 

Anyone know why this is happening?

 

UPDATE: Short opening tags are working Via browser just not command line where i need them

[redarrow]

find -name '*.php' -exec grep '<?[^p=]' {} ;

 

[AbydosGater]

Thanks Redarrow.. Where do i find this?

[redarrow]

what do you mean from my brain

[AbydosGater]

Lol, Right well what exactly do i do with "find -name '*.php' -exec grep '<?[^p=]' {} ;"?

[trq]

The code eedarrow posted is written for Linux and doesn't actually do anything but display <?php if found in your php file.

[AbydosGater]

Oh ok, well does anyone know how to fix my problem?

[trq]

I think you'll find the cli usually has its own php.ini. See if you can find it by typing....

 

php -i

 

at a prompt.

 

PS: It would be a good idea to get in the habbit of using the proper <?php tags from now on.

[AbydosGater]

Hey Thorpe.

Yay thanks found it and all fixed now!

 

Yes i know, its just all my own small scripts i know will be able to run on my server that i just use <?.. everything else is <?php

 

Thanks