Package to enable php from command line, and execution of bgr processes with exec

Question

I've ubuntu 12.04 running LAMP.

Script requirements are:

Ability to run PHP from the command line (CLI) with exec()
Ability to execute background processes with exec("binary > /dev/null &")

For the first should I install php-cli? or some other package? And for the second one, can anyone explain what it means?

jamzed · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-23T17:11:33.937

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if you want to run PHP scripts from command line, the php5-cli package is required.

sudo apt-get install php5-cli

exec function is implemented in a PHP core (http://php.net/manual/function.exec.php), executing process in a background is realized by your shell (it's not related to PHP or any PHP modules)

edited May 23 '13 at 17:11

answered May 23 '13 at 17:00

jamzed

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '13 at 16:41

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  sudo apt-get install php5
  sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
  sudo apt-get install apache2

All above commands will install php and apache on your server and you will get the ability to run php commandline also.

answered May 23 '13 at 16:41

Abhishek Anand Amralkar

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I have all these installed. What is php-cli package than in repo? – May 23 '13 at 16:43
php-cli is command line for php. – Abhishek Anand Amralkar May 23 '13 at 16:46
php -v If you see ‘cli’ somewhere on the first line, you are ready to go, otherwise you will have to install it first. apt-get install php-cli – Abhishek Anand Amralkar May 23 '13 at 16:48

Package to enable php from command line, and execution of bgr processes with exec

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