PHP5 guide

[Adam Sommer]

That's definitely a valid question, because the file /usr/bin/php5-cgi
that's installed with the php5-cgi file does allow you to execute PHP
scripts from the command line (found out after posting).  However the
php5-cli package installs /usr/bin/php, which is a symlink to
/etc/alternatives/php, and /etc/alternaitves/php is intern a symlink to
/usr/bin/php5.  Also, the output of dpkg -l php5-cgi is:

   server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary)

and the dpkg -l php5-cli is:

   command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language

Just my opinion, but I think of executing a PHP script from the command line
I think of php script_name.php (just my experience though).  This may have
been discussed on another mailing list or in the past as well.

I missed a reference to php5-cgi in the original diff file so here's a new
one.  Either way thanks for considering it.

On 9/4/07, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 14:51 -0400, Adam Sommer wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is a typo but in the "PHP5 Scripting Language"
> > page there's a slight error.  The guide mentions that to execute a PHP
> > file from the command line you need to install php5-cgi, but the
> > package to run PHP files from the command line is php5-cli.  I
> > attached a diff file with the correction.  If you need any more
> > information please let me know.
>
> Thanks for the patch. Can anyone else confirm that php5-cli is the
> correct package? It looks sensible, but I'm not 100%.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
> --
> Phil Bull
> http://www.launchpad.net/people/philbull
>
>


-- 
Party On,
Adam
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