php sockets/CLI question 1

[wangbar]

I've got a simple socket server script which I'm trying to run with PHP5 on win2000/IIS5 with no luck. I'm new to running things from the command line (and anything that isn't basic database interaction) to be honest and have a couple of questions:

1) I've uncommented the appropriate lines in the php.ini file to enable sockets and the extension shows up in my phpInfo page but I see this in many online tutorials: 'PHP binary must be compiled with --enable-sockets' - how do I do this? Is it a Unix thing?

2) How do I actually run a file from the command line? I have the php file in my webroot directory.

 

[sleipnir214]

1. I don't understand this question. Where are you seeing this error?

2. You run a PHP script from the command line on Win32 by invoking the interpreter and passing it the name of the script:

c:\path\to\php.exe \path\to\script.php

Of course, if php.exe is in a directory that is part of your PATH environment variable, you won't need the full path to php.exe.


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[wangbar]

1. It's not an error as such, just something I saw in a tutorial file as being a prerequisite for running sockets - turns out that everything works without it in this case...

2. Thanks - that's exactly what I was after.