I have a PHP script file that I would like to make into a one liner in terminal.

[Poet129]

How would I go about doing this?

[mariushm]

You can use the $argv array to read the parameters from command line,  or you can use getopts() to parse the arguments :

 

https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.argv.php

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.getopt.php

 

You can use echo function to output some text on screen. You can use die() to quit.

You can use constants like __DIR__  (the folder the script is located in) or other "magic constants" to make your life easier : https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php

There's also other functions like system() , exec() which allow you to launch programs from within the script IF the php is configured to allow it.

 

As for running a script, it's as simple as saying c:/path/to/php/php.exe  script.php argument1 argument2 etc

or ./php script.php argument1 argument2 etc in linux

 

There are some tools that can convert a php script to an executable / binary, but just like python ... it's interpreted code at the end of day, it's not true binary.