PHP CLI and Cron - Final Words

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Future of PHP

PHP CLI and how PHP CGI will be invoked maybe changed in the future and possible can affect your use of PHP. It has been said php CGI binary will be renamed to php-cgi and the php CLI will be just php. There has been talk as well just to leave the way is or even merge the both CLI and CGI into one.

The main reason why CLI needs to be included into PHP by default is because PEAR requires the PHP binary to run. For more information visit the PHP website, http://www.php.net.

Tips

When making entries into Cron make a note of what user you doing this with. The Cron job may not run properly if the right permission is not assigned. As well make sure if your PHP script is accessing any external programs such as Sendmail that I has the proper permissions as well.

Other things to look out for are the environment settings. For example, if the PHP script is accessing Java classes you may have to wrap the PHP script with a shell script. Where the shell script includes the appropriate settings for both the Java Path and Classpath.

If accessing $_SERVER["argv"] and $_SERVER["argc"] do not work for you may want to try simply accessing the variables $argv and $argc, register globals need to be set on. This mostly like the case for older version of PHP.

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