From: techtonik at tut dot by Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Merge CLI and CGI functionality
Description: ------------ I know that it is strange request and for developers it is more difficult to support two different functionalities in one binary, but.. For a long run PHP had this two .exe messing around and often it was quite easy to mention CLI instead of CGI and vice versa. With PHP5 CLI version becomes default and CGI migrated into directory. In PHP4 in directory was CLI version. Although it is quite easy to remember, it is rather hard to explain users what is CGI or CLI, why their php.exe is incorrect and where to find another php.exe. Often they just replace CGI with CLI (with "correct" version, ehh) and after upgrade to the story begins anew. I know that this is not so easy, but if there were a voting systems for proposals I bet this one would be in the first 20. I propose to leave default behavior as CGI and use "-f" key to execute script in CLI mode. Of course, it is more convenient to leave default mode to CLI, but it can probably lead to incompatibilities with CGI specification. Reproduce code: --------------- CGI behavior php.exe file.php CLI php.exe -f file.php -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=30056&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=float MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=30056&r=mysqlcfg
