Hai,

     I am using php version 4.0.2 . I have doubt that in this whether we 
could run php as a command line. 
Is there anything to be configured when php(4.0.2) is installed.
Or any thing to be turned on in php.ini(4.0.2) file to enable command line
access in php.

This information I got from php.net
Chapter 24. Using PHP from the command line
   Since version 4.3, PHP supports a new SAPI type (Server Application
   Programming Interface) named CLI which means Command Line Interface.
   As the name implies, this SAPI type main focus is on developing shell
   (or desktop as well) applications with PHP. There are quite some
   differences between the CLI SAPI and other SAPIs which are further
   explained throughout this chapter.

   The CLI SAPI was released for the first time with PHP 4.2.0, but was
   still experimental back then and had to be explicitely enabled with
   --enable-cli when running ./configure. Since PHP 4.3.0 the CLI SAPI is
   no longer experimental and is therefore always built and installed as
   the php (called php.exe on Windows) binary.

Bye & Regards,
S.Arun Srinivasan

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Joshua Hoover wrote:

> You will need to make sure that PHP is compiled as an executable as well as
> a module.  The PHP executable is normally placed under /usr/bin/php  You can
> then call PHP just as you would Perl.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Joshua Hoover
>