Using PHP from the command line

Although the code of a PHP file is normally triggered into action by a webserver, it is now possible to run standalone PHP programs, i.e., to run PHP programs from a Unix prompt or from a Windows command shell window.

So, if EasyPHP is being used on a Windows platform, you could type something like the following at a command prompt:

"C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-7\php\php.exe" hellothree.php

and the PHP processor in the file php.exe would execute hellothree.php. It would output something like:

0077: Content-type: text/html
0078: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.3
0079: 
0080: <HTML><BODY>
0081:    <P>hello world</P>
0082:    <P>hello world</P>
0083:    <P>hello world</P>
0084: </BODY></HTML>