[genevish]

Can I install PHP as a CGI application on OS X? I'd like to be able to run PHP scripts from the command line. I have the latest PHP version and it has instructions for installing as a dynamic or a static module. Are one of those what I want?

[mr_sonicblue]

The default installation type for PHP is a CGI executable. Here are installation instructions:

<font face = "courier">wget "http://www.php.net/do_download.php?download_file=php-4.0.5.tar.gz&source_site=www.php.net"
tar xvfz php-4.0.5.tar.gz
cd php-4.0.5
./configure --with-mysql --enable-discard-path --enable-force-cgi-redirect --enable-track-vars
make
sudo make install</font>

You can then write shell-scripts by putting

<font face = "courier">#!/usr/local/bin/php -q</font>

as your script header.

IMPORTANT
There is a slight bug in 4.0.5 that you will have to fix before it will compile successfully. After you configure, open the file main/internal_functions.c and, near the top, you should see a line like this:

<font face = "courier">#include "something"n#include "something"n#include "something"n</font>

You need to correct this so it looks like this:

<font face = "courier">#include "something"
#include "something"
#include "something"</font>


EDIT: posted the wrong header path.

[ 06-20-2001: Message edited by: mr_sonicblue ]