[php] running php script (php function) in linux bash

How we run php script using linux bash ?

php file test.php

test.php contain.

<?php echo "hello\n" ?>

php -f test.php

See the manual for full details of running PHP from the command line

There are two ways you can do this. One is the one already mentioned, i.e.:

php -f filename.php

The second option is making the script executable (chmod +x filename.php) and adding the following line to the top of your .php file:

#!/path/to/php

I'm not sure though if a webserver likes this, so if you also want to use the .php file in a website, that might not be the best idea. Still, if you're just writing some kind of script, it is easier to type ./path/to/phpfile.php than having to type php -f /path/to/phpfile.php every time.

First of all check to see if your PHP installation supports CLI. Type: php -v. You can execute PHP from the command line in 2 ways:

1. php yourfile.php
2. php -r 'print("Hello world");'

php test.php

should do it, or

php -f test.php

to be explicit.

just run in linux terminal to get phpinfo .

   php -r 'phpinfo();'

and to run file like index.php

    php -f index.php

I was in need to decode URL in a Bash script. So I decide to use PHP in this way:

$ cat url-decode.sh

#!/bin/bash
URL='url=https%3a%2f%2f1%2fecp%2f'
/usr/bin/php -r '$arg1 = $argv[1];echo rawurldecode($arg1);' "$URL"

Sample output:

$ ./url-decode.sh 
url=https://1/ecp/

Simply this should do:

php test.php