PHP error_log & includes not working

Question

So, my problem is as follows. This code works fine when I load the page via the web browser. But when I run the script from the command line like so: "php script.php" it bombs.

script.php is:

<?php
include_once('class.WebsiteScraper.php');
$ws = new WebsiteScraper();
$ws->test();
...
?>

class.WebsiteScraper.php is:

<?php
echo 'test';
class WebsiteScraper {
    public function test() {
        echo 'test2';
    }
}
?>

This returns the error:

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method WebsiteScraper::test() in ... on line 4

Only when called via the command line does this happen. Another thing to note, when I append an

error_log('hey there');

To script.php, it throws the error to the standard out, rather than in my error log. But when called from the web browser it puts it in the error log. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Use the command line option --ini to check if the command line is loading the same configuration file as apache:

php --ini

You could also call phpinfo().

It seems likely your file isn't being included - probably due to include paths.

Edit:

Try adding

error_reporting(E_ALL);