Posted by AnrDaemon on 01/25/08 06:44

Greetings, Gilles Ganault.
In reply to Your message dated Friday, January 25, 2008, 08:56:14,

> I need to write PHP scripts on an AstLinux distribution. Even
> though I added the "-q" switch on the shebbang line, PHP still outputs
> some HTML:

> ==========
> # cat test.php

> #!/usr/bin/php -q
> <?php
> echo "test";
?>>
> ==========
> # ./test.php
> X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
> Content-type: text/html

You're using CGI, not CLI version.
CLI version will NEVER output a HTTP header.
Also try the "php --help" and see if that switch exists at all.

> test#
> ==========

> Is there a switch somewhere to tell PHP to actually run scripts quietly,

"quiet" mode is NOT supposed to hide output at all.
It is in the best case will hide any PHP engine(!) generated messages, but
YOUR OWN output will be indeed written.

> or is it just the way PHP works when called from mini-httpd?

It is just how's it intended to work. If You don't want any output from script
- remove any output-generating commands from script or enclose it in
conditional checks.


--
Sincerely Yours, AnrDaemon <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>

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