php - PHP Command Line Interface 'CLI'

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PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and
       can be embedded into HTML. This is the command line interface that enables you to do the following:

       You can parse and execute files by using parameter -f followed by the name of the file to be executed.

       Using parameter -r you can directly execute PHP code simply as you would do inside a .php file when using
       the eval() function.

       It  is  also  possible to process the standard input line by line using either the parameter -R or -F. In
       this mode each separate input line causes the code specified by -R or the file  specified  by  -F  to  be
       executed.   You  can  access the input line by $argn. While processing the input lines $argi contains the
       number of the actual line being processed. Further more the parameters -B and -E can be used  to  execute
       code (see -r) before and after all input lines have been processed respectively. Notice that the input is
       read  from  STDIN  and therefore reading from STDIN explicitly changes the next input line or skips input
       lines.

       PHP also contains an built-in web server for application development purpose.  By  using  the  -S  option
       where  addr:port  point  to a local address and port PHP will listen to HTTP requests on that address and
       port and serve files from the current working directory or the docroot passed by the -t option.

       If a PHP file is provided to the command line when the built-in web server is used, it will  be  used  as
       the router script. This script will be started at each HTTP request. The script output is returned to the
       browser,  unless  the router script returns the false value. If so, the built-in server falls back to the
       default behaviour, returning the requested resource as-is  by  looking  up  the  files  relative  to  the
       document root specified by the -t option, if provided.

       If  none  of  -r  -f  -B -R -F -E or -S is present but a single parameter is given then this parameter is
       taken as the filename to parse and execute (same as with  -f).  If  no  parameter  is  present  then  the
       standard input is read and executed.

php-r'echo"HelloWorld\n";'
            This command simply writes the text "Hello World" to standard out.

       php-r'print_r(gd_info());'
            This  shows  the  configuration  of  your gd extension. You can use this to easily check which image
            formats you can use. If you have any dynamic modules you may want to use the same ini file that  php
            uses  when  executed  from your webserver. There are more extensions which have such a function. For
            dba use:
            php-r'print_r(dba_handlers(1));'php-R'echostrip_tags($argn)."\n";'
            This PHP command strips off the HTML tags line by line and outputs the result. To see how  it  works
            you  can  first look at the following PHP command ´php-dhtml_errors=1-i´ which uses PHP to output
            HTML formatted configuration information. If you then combine those two ´php...|php...´ you'll see
            what happens.

       php-E'echo"Lines:$argi\n";'
            Using this PHP command you can count the lines being input.

       php-R'@$l+=count(file($argn));'-E'echo"Lines:$l\n";'
            In this example PHP expects each input line being a file. It counts all lines of the files specified
            by each input line and shows the summarized result.  You may combine this with tools like  find  and
            change the php scriptlet.

       php-R'echo"$argn\n";fgets(STDIN);'
            Since  you  have  access  to STDIN from within -B -R -F and -E you can skip certain input lines with
            your code. But note that in such cases $argi only counts the lines being processed  by  php  itself.
            Having read this you will guess what the above program does: skipping every second input line.

/etc/php/@PHP_MAJOR_VERSION@.@PHP_MINOR_VERSION@/cli/php.ini
                      The configuration file for the CLI version of PHP.

       +.B /etc/php/@PHP_MAJOR_VERSION@.@PHP_MINOR_VERSION@/cgi/php.ini
                      +The    configuration    file    for    the    CGI    version    of    PHP.     +.TP   +.B
                      /etc/php/@PHP_MAJOR_VERSION@.@PHP_MINOR_VERSION@/apache2/php.ini +The  configuration  file
                      for the version of PHP that apache2 uses.

       php - PHP Command Line Interface 'CLI'

       php-cgi - PHP Common Gateway Interface 'CGI' command

--interactive-a             Run  PHP  interactively.  This  lets  you  enter  snippets  of  PHP code that directly get
                      executed. When readline support is enabled you can edit the lines and  also  have  history
                      support.

       --bindpathaddress:port|port-baddress:port|port
                      Bind Path for external FASTCGI Server mode (CGI only).

       --no-chdir-C             Do not chdir to the script's directory (CGI only).

       --no-header-q             Quiet-mode. Suppress HTTP header output (CGI only).

       --timingcount-Tcount       Measure execution time of script repeated count times (CGI only).

       --php-inipath|file-cpath|file   Look for php.ini file in the directory path or use the specified file--no-php-ini-n             No php.ini file will be used

       --definefoo[=bar]-dfoo[=bar]   Define INI entry foo with value bar-e             Generate extended information for debugger/profiler

       --filefile-ffile        Parse and execute file--help-h             This help

       --hide-args-H             Hide  script name (file) and parameters (args...) from external tools. For example you may
                      want to use this when a php script is started as a daemon and the  command  line  contains
                      sensitive data such as passwords.

       --info-i             PHP information and configuration

       --syntax-check-l             Syntax check only (lint)

       --modules-m             Show compiled in modules

       --runcode-rcode        Run PHP code without using script tags '<?..?>'--process-begincode-Bbegin_code  Run PHP begin_code before processing input lines

       --process-codecode-Rcode        Run PHP code for every input line

       --process-filefile-Ffile        Parse and execute file for every input line

       --process-endcode-Eend_code    Run PHP end_code after processing all input lines

       --syntax-highlight-s             Output HTML syntax highlighted source

       --serveraddr:port-Saddr:port   Start built-in web server on the given local address and port

       --docrootdocroot-tdocroot     Specify the document root to be used by the built-in web server

       --version-v             Version number

       --strip-w             Output source with stripped comments and whitespace

       --zend-extensionfile-zfile        Load Zend extension fileargs...        Arguments passed to script. Use '--'args when first argument starts with '-' or script is
                      read from stdin

       --rfunctionname--rfname Shows information about function name--rclassname--rcname Shows information about class name--rextensionname--rename Shows information about extension name--rzendextensionname--rzname Shows information about Zend extension name--rextinfoname--riname Shows configuration for extension name--ini          Show configuration file names

       For a more or less complete description of PHP look here:
       https://www.php.net/manual/

php [options] [ -f ] file [[--] args...]

       php [options] -rcode [[--] args...]

       php [options] [-B begin_code] -Rcode [-E end_code] [[--] args...]

       php [options] [-B begin_code] -Ffile [-E end_code] [[--] args...]

       php [options] -- [ args...]

       php [options] -aphp [options] -S addr:port [-t docroot]

       You  can  use  a  shebang line to automatically invoke php from scripts. Only the CLI version of PHP will
       ignore such a first line as shown below:

              #!/bin/php
              <?php
               // your script
              ?>

       This manpage describes php, version 8.4.5.