PHP

General-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development.

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Table of Contents

• Misc
• Run

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See also: Composer — dependency manager for PHP projects.

Misc

# Show PHP information
php -i

# Syntax check (lint)
php -l [filename]

# Show configuration file names
php --ini

# Show PHP version
php -v

# Show loaded PHP extensions
php -m

# Show defined PHP constants (all categories)
php -r "print_r(get_defined_constants(true));"

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Run

# Run with built-in web server
php -S [address]:[port]

# Parse and execute file
php -f [filename]

# Run interactively (REPL)
php -a

# Run code directly from command line
php -r "echo 'Hello, World!';"

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