Run php code in command line

Question

I just began learning php. I\'ve installed php5 on linux and wrote very simple code just to get going.

How can I run scripts? I tried using the

Answer 1

Actually, PHP's main purpose is to generate web pages, but there are at least two other options:

• command line (CLI) script execution,
• interactive shell - which is actually the variant of the previous option,

The first one can be achieved in many ways (eg. by giving proper permissions to the file and calling script by providing its URI, eg. ./index.php), the second one can be invoked by php -a command (as stated in the documentation mentioned above).