On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, John Coggeshall wrote: > >I see that renaming the CGI to php-cgi might break things indeed, and > >that's never a good idea. But so is changing the name of the CLI (php) > >to something else. It also breaks things, not only for me, but > >also for > >countless others using the CLI with the name 'php'. We also need to > >think about these users as well. This leaves my opinion that i'm -1 on > >renaming the CLI to something else, and i'm a -0 (yes this > >changed :) on > >renaming the CGI. This leaves the (IMO) only possible solution: > >integrate them back into one binary and adding some magic > >which triggers > >CLI or CGI mode (perhaps to check for some environment variable). > > I'm a bit nervous about the checking of an environment variable thing. > Is that platform/server independent?
The CGI interface uses environment variables, so if some platform doesn't have them, CGI doesn't work on it. - Stig -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
