I know that PHP is mainly used for developing web-based applications, but I think that it has a great potential as a general purpose scripting language. Even when developing web applications I often find necessary to make command line scripts for maintenance and batch operations.
One of our goals should be the presence of /usr/bin/php on as many systems as possible. We already have decent support for command line scripts in form of ext/ncurses, ext/pcntl and similar, but there are still some pieces that could be improved. The build process should be altered so that the standalone interpreter (cgi sapi) is always built so the traditional make && make install installs /usr/bin/php no matter what sapi module was chosen. There were some suggestions on this list to create a new sapi (CLI), which would be a simplified version of cgi sapi, but which would print no headers by default, etc. Edin -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
