PHP - how to build non-CLI?

tparker · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 85

I upgraded my PHP on two servers - on one of them, after building, it told me that it's a CLI version and not for web servers. This renders it pretty useless then, since my PHP is built purely for web use!! A few questions then:

1. What is CLI and why is it building CLI? (note it built proper version on other machine)

2. How to I force a non-CLI version? (i.e. a USEABLE version)

3. What else could PHP possibly be used for if it's not for the web?

Thanks,

Terence

rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

1. & 3. CLI = Command Line Interface

php is a interpreter, just like perl. so you can use it to write script's. another purpose to compile it as a standalone binary is to use it as CGI.

2. emerge dev-php/mod_php
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