Posted by Andy Hassall on 12/16/98 11:57

On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:12:12 -0700, CptDondo <yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com> wrote:

>I have a PHP app that generates web pages on the fly based on some data
>it reads from XML files. The pages are served up via a http server and
>displayed with a browser.
>
>I've been asked to port this to an ANSI terminal-type display,
>eliminating the web server and browser.
>
>Initially I thought about using C to write the app, but XML handling in
>C is a real PITA, plus I don't get to reuse my PHP code.
>
>So, now I want to use PHP to generate those same pages except that I
>don't want to send headers ever, and I need to loop waiting for
>characters to arrive from the keypad and display pages based on those
>chars...
>
>This is on an embedded platform, and I really need to be able to use a
>single PHP binary for both purposes (the displays are interchangeable at
>the hardware level; it all depends on what the customer pays for.)
>
>How do I get php to act as just another scripting language?

The CLI executable version of PHP doesn't output headers:

andyh@server ~ $ php test.php
look, no headers!

andyh@server ~ $ php -v
PHP 5.1.5 (cli) (built: Aug 17 2006 21:16:25)
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies

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