Practical Tips: Use PHP as a Shell scripting language

We all know that PHP is a very good dynamic web page development language (fast speed, short development cycle ......). However, only a few people realize that PHP can also be a good language for writing Shell scripts. When PHP is used as a language for writing Shell scripts, it is not as powerful as Perl or Bash, but he has a good advantage, especially for people who are familiar with PHP but are not familiar with Perl.

To use PHP as the Shell scripting language, you must compile PHP as a binary CGI instead of the Apache mode. Compiling PHP to run in binary CGI Mode has some security issues, for the solution, see the PHP Manual (