Comments on: Running PHP CLI shell scripts

By: ahmed

ahmed — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:40:20 +0000

good job,

By: Ved

Ved — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:38:20 +0000

Helped a lot. Kudos to you!

By: varisha

varisha — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:21:21 +0000

To learn another programming language like perl or bash to make shell scripts, you can run cron jobs in PHP and you can reuse code from a website for example in your shell script. When having application that has well defined model layer you can implement tools that operate on the model from CLI scripts and reuse most of the model. Also when implementing models that should work only with PHP CLI, they should also be the part of the model and CLI script should be kept simple as possible.

By: Yandex

Yandex — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:53:33 +0000

It was very interesting for me, as I beginner in scripting (sorry for my english).

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By: Ajai Khattri

Ajai Khattri — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:21:20 +0000

Nothing new about any of this – the shebang is the ’standard’ way to run scripts on a Unix environment.

By: Kevin van Zonneveld

Kevin van Zonneveld — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:59:08 +0000

Cronjobs run periodically at a certain interval. This can cause overlap, and sometimes you need to know about the state of a previous run.

In these cases you can make your PHP CLI script act like a service (daemon), running indefinitely in the background (just like apache or mysql).

I’ve wrapped the required code in the following class:
http://pear.php.net/package/System_Daemon