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  1. Believe me, I wish I were on my Mac. Unfortunately, it's just an old PPC machine, with most everything no longer supported. So, the box I'm using is running Win 7 Pro. Interesting to note, I entered the temp conversion script and ran it from the command line without changing any of the quotes. It ran fine! Been in computers as a profession since '65 - mainframe IBMs to Macs. This fits the pattern! Thanks. John
  2. HI Larry, Thanks for the reply. Finally got it going with C:\xampp\php in the path... C:\xampp\php>php -v PHP 5.3.1 (cli) (built: Nov 20 2009 17:26:32) Copyright © 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright © 1998-2009 Zend Technologies Discovered I don't have to cd in the cmd line and php -v works now. H o w e v e r - The following fails... C:\Users\John>php -r 'echo "Hello, World!";' Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE in Command line code on line 1 I think you'll recognize that as straight out of the book. To make this short, the final fix was to reverse all the quotes (' for ", " for ')... C:\Users\John>php -r "print('Hello, World!');" Hello, World! This is as far as I've gotten, so I don't know what the status of the other scripts in this chapter is. Makes no sense to me. Hopefully you'll know why. Thanks again. John
  3. Hi Antonio, Hmm - I was under the impression the the CLI didn't use Apache, but rather a special version of PHP. Xampp has actually been installed twice - the initial, and then an update. It's running just fine. Yes. Yes. It's a standard install. No problems with your questions here. But I am confused by them, as at this point I haven't even started trying to run a script yet - just trying to get a version from the PHP CLI. Also, I see nothing in the book about configuring Apache, but just a mention that the CLI uses a different php.ini than Apache does. Thanks. John
  4. Hi, I'm taking an online course that uses your book. My system runs Win 7 with the xampp setup, and actually works very nicely - 'til now. Trying the initial test (php -v) results in a nasty ''php' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.' Missing info in the path statement, I suspect. Tried entering C:\xampp\php\ there, but still got the same result. In \xampp\php\ there is a file 'php-cgi.exe' (nothing that refers to 'cli'). Does this need to be added to the path statement? Also, does the system need a restart for the new path to be recognized? Needless to say, I'm a Mac guy, but my 9 year old PPC does not support CS5, and also has a very old version of PHP loaded, so I'm pushed to my Win machine. Apologies for my 'Page 1' questions. Thoughts appreciated. John
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