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brandenwagner
brandenwagner

Reputation: 138

php cli and bashrc files?

I am working on php terminal emulator, and it works, but its not using any .bashrc or .bash_profile files. So aliases to commands dont work. Im on a shared server which has both php5.4 and php 5.2 so when i run a command from the terminal emulator its using the wrong php version but if i actually ssh in and run commands its using the right version. I need to use php 5.4 but im not sure how to make that happen.

ive made sure that im acutally using bash

/bin/sh -> /bin/bash

here is my working (via ssh) .bashrc

alias 'php=/usr/local/php54/bin/php'
export PATH=~/bin/:/usr/local/php54/bin/:$PATH

however when i log in to my terminal emulator, echo $PATH produces

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

Im using system() to emulate, but i have also tried exec() and shell_exec

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2830

Answers (2)

Finbarr
Finbarr

Reputation: 486

I dont think the $path variable is important as far as what you are trying to do.

If you have php 5.4 installed in /usr/local/php54/bin/ you should be able to run your CLI like this;

/usr/local/php54/bin/php -f /path/to/php-file-to-run.php

Upvotes: 2

ItalyPaleAle
ItalyPaleAle

Reputation: 7316

If your problem is just with PHP (and you do not care about actually reading the .bash_profile file), then you can just call the PHP binary using the full path:

$ /path/to/php somefile.php

To determine which is the path of the "php" binary that you're executing when you're using SSH, just run:

$ which php

Will produce as output the full path (presumably "/usr/local/php54/bin/php")

Upvotes: 1

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