Running php script from server

Never done from command line before

[mattyb515]

This morning I downloaded php and installed it on our server. It's not setup as a webserver b/c we didn't need that. Now this is probably a dumb question but how the heck do I run the scripts I've created. I've never done it from the command prompt before. Oh yeah it's a Windows 2K3 server. I've only ever run scripts from a website.

Thanks in advance all!

[hawkerz]

just go start -> run and type in 'cmd'. Navigate to the directory the script is in using the cd command, and when you get there, type php scriptname.php

[mattyb515]

That's what I though but I thought I should double check just to be sure.

When I run the script I receive an error that I haven't gotten before. It points to this line:

$data2 = fgetcsv($order_var_file, 1000, ",");

It expects parameter 1 to be resource and it says a boolean is given. I have this exact statement in 3 other places and I don't get an error. Any thoughts?

[jatar_k]

where is $order_var_file defined? Also have you looked at whether you release the resource somewhere before this line?

If opening failed then you would get a bool

if $order_var_file is defined multiple times, such as opening and closing the file multiple times, then other places it is used becomes irrelevant

[mattyb515]

It's defined at the beginning:

$order_var_file = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT\live\incoming\order_variation.csv", "r");

I just find it kind of odd b/c this worked when I ran it from our webserver.

[mattyb515]

I'm kind of lost b/c I just uploaded the script to our webserver and it ran beautifully.

$order_var_file = fopen("$DOCUMENT_ROOT\live\incoming\order_variation.csv", "r");

Do the backslashes need to be front slashes?

[hawkerz]

you may need to use double \'s like C:\\location\\of\\file.csv

[mattyb515]

The \\ was the ticket. Thanx so much.