[apricotweb]

I am trying to run a php5 script from crontab on one of your cpanel reseller boxes. The script needs to run in php5. What shebang should I use or how would I go about this?

Thanks

[Matt]

Hi,

Do you already have a standard PHP shebang? If so, replace 'php' with 'php5'

Matt

[apricotweb]

Hi Matt

I'm afraid it wasn't as simple as that. There wasn't an alias in /bin. After allot of trail and error I discovered it was:

#!/usr/local/php5/bin/php5

It is almost all working nicely now. I am just getting this in my error logs every time the script runs.

[07-Dec-2007 18:23:01] PHP Warning: Zend Optimizer does not support this version of PHP - please upgrade to the latest version of Zend Optimizer in Unknown on line 0

[arnoldkrg]

I just thought I would post an addition to this thread in case it is useful to anyone else. I am writing a script to read and process text in incoming emails. In order to do this I am piping the incoming mail to a script written in php5 (which is now standard on my host server....Indigo)

Here is the pipe:

|/home/username/script_directory/nameofscript.php

I initially used the following shebang line in the script:

#!/usr/bin/php

This worked and the email was received by the script and was processed.

However, a bounce message was sent to the originator of the email. Obviously not desirable since the message was actually forwarded to and received by the script.

Changed the shebang line to the following:

#!/usr/bin/php -q

the -q switch suppresses the bounce message and allows the piped email to be processed silently.

Hope this saves someone else a bit of time.

[Kieran]

Originally Posted by arnoldkrg

However, a bounce message was sent to the originator of the email. Obviously not desirable since the message was actually forwarded to and received by the script.

Changed the shebang line to the following:

#!/usr/bin/php -q

the -q switch suppresses the bounce message and allows the piped email to be processed silently.

Good call there; that is exactly what you are supposed to do when you are running a script blind (no user will be present to see output and so output is not required). This switch is also useful for those running PHP scripts via a cron job.

Thanks for sharing