PHP command line on ubuntu

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:56:05 +0000

To run php command line on ubuntu,then you need installphp5-cli,its an command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language.

$sudo apt-get install php5-cli

run below command to check where php is located
~$ which php
/usr/bin/php

for sample code example

$dt=date(“Y-m-d”);
echo $dt.”\n”;

save as datecheck.php

~$ php datecheck.php
2010-03-23

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