The command line options of the PHP executable are useful if you would like to debug or test your PHP setup, but they can also be handy, if you would like to use PHP for a different purpose than web scripting.
Note, that you can allways direct the output of the PHP executable to an external file with the > character, so php -q test.php > test.html will print out the output of test.php without HTTP headers to the test.html file in the same directory.
The command line options of the PHP executable are useful if you would like to debug or test your PHP setup, but they can also be handy, if you would like to use PHP for a different purpose than web scripting.
You can only use these command line options if you have the PHP executable. If you built the server module version, and you have no CGI version available on your machine, than you have no chance to use these options. For Windows users both the PHP executable and the server modules are in the binary package, the executable is named php.exe.
The command line options of the PHP executable are useful if you would like to debug or test your PHP setup, but they can also be handy, if you would like to use PHP for a different purpose than web scripting.
Note, that you can allways direct the output of the PHP executable to an external file with the > character, so php -q test.php > test.html will print out the output of test.php without HTTP headers to the test.html file in the same directory.
The command line options of the PHP executable are useful if you would like to debug or test your PHP setup, but they can also be handy, if you would like to use PHP for a different purpose than web scripting.
You can only use these command line options if you have the PHP executable. If you built the server module version, and you have no CGI version available on your machine, than you have no chance to use these options. For Windows users both the PHP executable and the server modules are in the binary package, the executable is named php.exe.
