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Re: [PHP-INSTALL] php on rh8 From: James Hughbanks (jamesh <email protected>)
Date: 09/16/03

Try changing the <? to <?php as sometimes short tags are disabled.

--James
On Saturday, Sep 13, 2003, at 16:58 America/New_York, Kalin Mintchev
wrote:

>
>
> hi all,
>
> problems on rh8
>
> the box was build with the standard php-4.2.2 from the redhat rpms.
> without the cli. i need the cli so i deleted the rpm ( rpm -e
> php...) install and build php-4.3.0 from source. now i get from
> /usr/local/bin/php -v
>
> PHP 4.3.0 (cli) (built: Apr 5 2003 06:38:17)
> Copyright (c) 1997-2002 The PHP Group
> Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Zend Technologies
>
> with the cli included...
>
> the problem starts here. i have a php application develped on another
> machine - freebsd one - that uses cron to run some php scripts. the
> php on
> both machines is the same build - same options, same versions, same
> source
> - but when i run a simple test script on the rh8 machine i get this:
>
> simple test script:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/php -q
>
> <?
> $db = mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass");
> mysql_select_db("database",$db);
> $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table",$db);
> printf("l1: %s\n", mysql_result($result,0,"content"));
>
> ?>
> ####################################################
>
> output:
>
> # ./LL.php
> ./LL.php: line 2: ?: No such file or directory
> ./LL.php: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> ../LL.php: line 3: ` $db = mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass");'
>
>
> ok. so i got the most recent source from php.net php-4.3.3 and rebuld
> php.
> now from phpinfo() i get that the version is 4.3.3 but from
> /usr/local/bin/php -v i still get 4.3.0 and the scripts are still not
> working....
>
> i realize that the /usr/local/php is a shell script that passes the php
> script through sed and then on to the system - why would i get file not
> found on the RH8 machine..
>
> it's very important for me to solve this by tonight....
>
> thanks...
>
--James Hughbanks
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