Ubuntu – PHP compiler/interpreter

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How to install PHP Compiler/Interpreter on ubuntu 11.04

I have latest version of PHP, but I want to learn PHP from terminal. Is there a PHP interpreter available that will run PHP programs inside terminal.

e.g. I want to run command like "phpc" or "phpi" or "php" to open up PHP REPL.

Thanks.

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Just run

sudo apt-get install php5-cli

To run it in interactive mode:

php -a

Run a file:

php /path/to/file

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Ubuntu – How to run PHP code in browser directly from Geany

php doesn't run in the browser, it runs on the server. You need to install a web server with php support. The Ubuntu Server Guide documents this in detail. You can easily get started by installing the libapache2-mod-php5 package

$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

And then you can put a php file where the apache server can read and execute it. e.g. /var/www

$ echo '<?php phpinfo(); ?>' > /var/www/test.php

Now visit http:// localhost /test.php and you should see the php info page. (I had to break this url to make askubuntu happy - links cannont contain localhost.)

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