PHP Command Line Interface (CLI) Running your script
Example
On either Linux/UNIX or Windows, a script can be passed as an argument to the PHP executable, with that script's options and arguments following:
php ~/example.php foo bar
c:\php\php.exe c:\example.php foo bar
This passes foo and bar as arguments to example.php.
On Linux/UNIX, the preferred method of running scripts is to use a shebang (e.g. #!/usr/bin/env php) as the first line of a file, and set the executable bit on the file. Assuming the script is in your path, you can then call it directly:
example.php foo bar
Using /usr/bin/env php makes the PHP executable to be found using the PATH. Following how PHP is installed, it might not be located at the same place (such as /usr/bin/php or /usr/local/bin/php), unlike env which is commonly available from /usr/bin/env.
On Windows, you could have the same result by adding the PHP's directory and your script to the PATH and editing PATHEXT to allow .php to be detected using the PATH. Another possibility is to add a file named example.bat or example.cmd in the same directory as your PHP script and write this line into it:
c:\php\php.exe "%~dp0example.php" %*
Or, if you added PHP's directory into the PATH, for convenient use:
php "%~dp0example.php" %*
