PHP CLI unexpected issues

[Dennis Lovelady]

I have been using PHP a very short time, and am still in the learning
process. For the most part, I'm using CGI 5.2.4-2 on a linux system,
but I would like to now start developing CLI scripts that can be used
from my Windows Vista system, or other CLI-based system.

So I have downloaded and installed PHP 5.2.6:
P:\php\gifstuff>php -v
PHP 5.2.6 (cli) (built: May 2 2008 18:02:07)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies

I'm trying to understand why there are a number of differences between
the way this CLI works, and the way the unix system CLI works. For
example, php -r 'phpinfo();' on the Ubuntu system does what I
expected, but look what happens on Vista:
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P:\php\gifstuff>php -v
PHP 5.2.6 (cli) (built: May 2 2008 18:02:07)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies

P:\php\gifstuff>php -r 'phpinfo();'

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in Command line code on
line 1

P:\php\gifstuff>
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There are other differences too that are minor annoyances, and I'll
get around to them sometime... But HERE'S THE KILLER of the moment: My
script uses getopt() to parse incoming parameters. On the unix
system, it's working great. But I'm stopped at the top of the script
with the 5.2.6-Win system:

P:\php\gifstuff>php -cf index.php --

Warning: opendir(./captcha/fonts/): failed to open dir: No error
in P:\php\gifstuff\index.php on line 66

Fatal error: Call to undefined function getopt() in
P:\php\gifstuff\index.php on line 126

Here are those two lines:
66 ---> if ( $dh = opendir ( "./captcha/fonts/" ) ) {

126 --> $parms = getopt("ht:f:n:s:o:");

I'd like to understand why PHP feels it necessary to send me a warning
stating that there was no error (!???!!!!??) on an opendir operation,
but more I need to understand where getopt() may have gone. At first,
I thought it was an installation error, so I reinstalled, but no joy -
still gives the same result.

So, I thought I'd see major differences in the php.ini file, but there
really aren't many (except that Win has a lot of .dll includes).

Any up front suggestions, or debugging information I can provide????

Thanks!!!!
Dennis Lovelady
php-...@removeme.lovelady.com
(remove "removeme")

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"Don't talk about yourself; that will be done when you leave."
-- Wilson Mizner

[Sjoerd]

On Aug 2, 5:38 pm, Dennis Lovelady <php-st...@removeme.lovelady.com>
wrote:

>     Fatal error: Call to undefined function getopt() in
> P:\php\gifstuff\index.php on line 126

on Mizner

The changelog in the PHP manual says this about getopt():
5.3.0 This function is no longer system dependent and works on
Windows too.

So getopt() is available on Windows on PHP 5.3.0, but not on PHP 5.2.6.