+1 Edin Kadribasic wrote:
>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]