How To Run PHP From Windows Command Line in WAMPServer

Question

I\'m new to php and wanted to run php from command line. I have installed WAMP and set the \"System Variables\" to my php folder ( which is C:\\wamp\\bin\\php\\php5.4.

Answer 1

You can run php pages using php.exe create some php file with php code and in the cmd write "[PATH to php.ext]\php.exe [path_to_file]\file.php"

Answer 2

I remember one time when I stumbled upon this issue a few years ago, it's because windows don't have readline, therefore no interactive shell, to use php interactive mode without readline support, you can do this instead:

C:\>php -a 
Interactive mode enabled 

<?php 
echo "Hello, world!"; 
?> 
^Z 
Hello, world!

After entering interactive mode, type using opening (<?php) and closing (?>) php tag, and end with control Z (^Z) which denotes the end of file.

I also recall that I found the solution from php's site user comment: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.interactive.php#105729

Answer 3

The following solution is specifically for wamp environments:

This foxed me for a little while, tried all the other suggestions, $PATH etc even searched the windows registry looking for clues:

The GUI (wampmanager) indicates I have version 7 selected and yes if I phpinfo() in a page in the browser it will tell me its version 7.x.x yet php -v in the command prompt reports a 5.x.x

If you right click on the wampmanager head to icon->tools->delete unused versions and remove the old version, let it restart the services then the command prompt will return a 7.x.x

This solution means you no longer have the old version if you want to switch between php versions but there is a configuration file in C:\wamp64\wampmanager.conf which appears to specify the version to use with CLI (the parameter is called phpCliVersion). I changed it, restarted the server ... thought I had solved it but no effect perhaps I was a little impatient so I have a feeling there may be some mileage in that.

Hope that helps someone

Answer 4

just do these steps if you don't need your old php version:

• open wamp and right click on wamp manager than go : tools/Change PHP CLI Version than change php version to latest
• another time right click on wamp manager than go : tools/Delete unuserd versions and delete the oldest version which your system insist on it to be your pc php version :D
• go to control panel/user account/change my environment variables and in PATH variable click edit and add your latest php version path which is in your wamp server bin folder
• close all command lines or IDEs and restart them and check for php -v

this works well

Answer 5

The problem you are describing sounds like your version of PHP might be missing the readline PHP module, causing the interactive shell to not work. I base this on this PHP bug submission.

Try running

php -m

And see if "readline" appears in the output.

There might be good reasons for omitting readline from the distribution. PHP is typically executed by a web server; so it is not really need for most use cases. I am sure you can execute PHP code in a file from the command prompt, using:

php file.php

There is also the phpsh project which provides a (better) interactive shell for PHP. However, some people have had trouble running it under Windows (I did not try this myself).

Edit: According to the documentation here, readline is not supported under Windows:

Note: This extension is not available on Windows platforms.

So, if that is correct, your options are:

• Avoid the interactive shell, and just execute PHP code in files from the command line - this should work well
• Try getting phpsh to work under Windows

Answer 6

If you want to just run a quick code snippet you can use the -r option:

php -r "echo 'hi';"

-r allows to run code without using script tags <?..?>