Hello i have a PHP script, and its added to cron, it is possible to execute from this script shell command (with exec() or something) without enabling it on php.ini? I don't want to enable exec on my site
It's called PHP CLI, check here
Usually when you install php, there's option to install php_cli too.
So long you can run php on shell prompt, then it can work.
Open bash (or other shell), try this:
php -v
If the version printed, then it's working.
Then you can
php -f phpfile
or put
#!/usr/bin/php
At the beginning of your php file as a line, and chmod +x file.php, and then
./file.php
#or
/path/to/file.php
to run it.
(Note /usr/bin/php is the usual place of php executable, it might change, eg in unix is ually /bin/php. Use whereis php to check its place.)
I can run facebook.php script from ssh below:
cd /var/www/
php facebook.php
But I want to run to script 1 line command because i want to use it on cron. Like this:
php /var/www/facebook.php
I tried other commands on ssh but dont worked. Only first command is worked for me
if /usr/bin/php /var/www/facebook.php is not working, it might a case of your php path is different then /usr/bin/php.
I have 1 file php: C:\\Xml2InDesign\\InDesignTagConverter.php
I exe it by:
$sjis_cmd="php \"C:\\Xml2InDesign\\InDesignTagConverter.php\";
exec($sjis_cmd, $output);
It not working. What do i must setting?
I run from cmd:
php "C:\Xml2InDesign\InDesignTagConverter.php" "c:\work\link2\\tmp\\5699\\direction.xml" "c:\work\link2\\tmp\\5699\\tables"
Show error: 'php' is not recognized...
Find your php.exe path and run command from there.
Like if your php.exe is in C:\PHP5\php.exe , then you can execute like this
C:\PHP5\php.exe "C:\\Xml2InDesign\\InDesignTagConverter.php\"
Refer this link
OR
if you want to run it through php code then use exec command
The PHP CLI as its called ( php for the Command Line Interface ) is called php.exe It lives in c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.x.y\php.exe ( where x and y are the version numbers of php that you have installed )
If you want to create php scrips to run from the command line that great its easy and very useful.
Create yourself a batch file like this, lets call it phppath.cmd :
PATH=%PATH%;c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.x.y php -v
Save this into one of your folders that is already on your PATH, so you can run it from anywhere.
Now from a command window, cd into your source folder and run >phppath.
Then run
php your_script.php
I have a php script that I want to be run using a bash script, so I can use Cron to run the php script every minute or so.
As far as I'm aware I need to create the bash script to handle the php script which will then allow me to use the Cron tool/timer.
So far I was told I need to put:
#!/pathtoscript/testphp.php
at the start of my php script. Im not sure what to do from here...
Any advice? Thanks.
If you have PHP installed as a command line tool (try issuing php to the terminal and see if it works), your shebang (#!) line needs to look like this:
#!/usr/bin/php
Put that at the top of your script, make it executable (chmod +x myscript.php), and make a Cron job to execute that script (same way you'd execute a bash script).
You can also use php myscript.php.
Sometimes PHP is placed in non standard location so it's probably better first locate it and then try to execute.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
PHP=`which php`
$PHP /path/to/php/file.php
A previous poster said..
If you have PHP installed as a command line tool… your shebang (#!) line needs to look like this: #!/usr/bin/php
While this could be true… just because you can type in php does NOT necessarily mean that's where php is going to be... /usr/bin/php is A common location… but as with any shebang… it needs to be tailored to YOUR env.
a quick way to find out WHERE YOUR particular executable is located on your $PATH, try..
➜which -a php ENTER, which for me looks like..
php is /usr/local/php5/bin/php
php is /usr/bin/php
php is /usr/local/bin/php
php is /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/php
The first one is the default i'd get if I just typed in php at a command prompt… but I can use any of them in a shebang, or directly… You can also combine the executable name with env, as is often seen, but I don't really know much about / trust that. XOXO.
You just need to set :
/usr/bin/php path_to_your_php_file
in your crontab.
I'm pretty sure something like this is what you are looking for:
#!/bin/sh
php /pathToScript/script.php
Save that with your desired script name (such as runPHP.sh) and give it execution rights, then you can use it however you want.
Edit: You might as well not use a bash script at all and just add the "php ..." command to the crontab, if I'm not mistaken.
Good luck!
The bash script should be something like this:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/php /path/to/php/file.php
You need the php executable (usually found in /usr/bin) and the path of the php script to be ran. Now you only have to put this bash script on crontab and you're done!
a quick way to find out WHERE YOUR particular executable is located on your $PATH, try.
Even quicker way to find out where php is ...
whereis php
I'm running debian and above command showing me
php: /usr/bin/php /usr/share/php /usr/share/man/man1/php.1.gz
Hope that helps.
If you don't do anything in your bash script than run the php one, you could simply run the php script from cron with a command like /usr/bin/php /path/to/your/file.php.
I found php-cgi on my server. And its on environment path so I was able to run from anywhere. I executed succesfuly file.php in my bash script.
#!/bin/bash
php-cgi ../path/file.php
And the script returned this after php script was executed:
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.1
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
done!
By the way, check first if it works by checking the version issuing the command php-cgi -v
Create file.php with first line in files: file.php(#!/bin/php) file.sh(#!/bin/bash).
Check installed php.Run command in terminal:
which php
If set there will be an answer:
/usr/bin/php
Run file.php with command:
php file.php
if the file has started then you can write this command to file.sh:
#!/bin/bash
run_php=`php file.php`
echo $run_php
Be careful ' and ` different!!!
Normally when I want to run a php script from the command line I just create a php page, add a shebang pointing to the php binary, then ./file.php to run it. Since I have php installed as an apache module, I'm not even sure what my shebang should look like. Any ideas?
The CLI version of PHP had been part of the default installation since 4.3 and has to be explicitly turned off when PHP is being built. If you have access to the command line try
$ php -v
If you don't get a command not found error then you should be ready to go.
To actually run a php file from the command line do this:
$ php -f file.php
If it's just an Apache module, I don't think you can do it… At least, not without using a script like this:
$ cat run_php_with_apache
#!/bin/sh
cp "$1" /var/www/
curl "http://localhost/`basename "$1"`"
rm "/var/www/`basename "$1"`"