I have one server (test) which has "php" command that I can run CLI with. The other server (hosting) runs only with "php5-cli" command.
Example:
exec("php file.php"); // Works on test server
exec("php5-cli file.php"); // Works on hosting server
How can my script detect which one to use?
Make a config value specific to each server. On some servers you will encounter php5 as a cli command, instead of php:) And the system administrator may easily rename or symlink the executable to any name he likes.
edit: try something along the lines of :
$output = Array();
$result = -1;
exec("php -f myScript.php", $output, $result);
if($result==-1){
// you should try to exec use the other method here
echo "app 'php' not found";
}else{
// the exec was a success
}
php-config --php-binary
php-config5 --php-binary
But you probably run into similar problems of no guarantee what that command is called (or that it exists). Not sure how many hosting companies use it.
Make sure which php.ini is included when using each of them.
Could you symlink php-cli as php or vise versa?
That way either would work.
php doesn't work on his host server, hence his question.Why not make a symlink to the executable on one of the servers ln -s so that one of them is available on both servers.
That should solve this problem.
