PHP Server Name from Command Line

Question

I can't find a way to detect the name of the server running a PHP script from the command line. There are numerous ways to do this for PHP accessed via HTTP. But there does not appear to be a way to do this for CLI.

For example : $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] is not available from the command line.

Does anyone have suggestions?

Thanks, Justin Noel AppBeacon.com

Answer 1

Possibly because if you run a script from the command line, no server is involved?

Answer 2

Write your server name in your config file or something similar.

Answer 3

Try:

$servername = `hostname`;

Answer 4

The SERVER_NAME is not available when you run PHP from the CLI for that very same reason.

When you run PHP from the CLI, you start your own PHP intepreter that runs whatever code you passed to it, without any kind of server. So from the CLI, PHP knows nothing about your web server that you do not explicitly tell it.

Answer 5

echo php_uname("n");

see http://php.net/manual/en/function.php-uname.php

Answer 6

@Uwe Mesecke : I can't vote up or down. Your answer is the best. Although, it is not 100% portable, because some hosts respond with extra garbage in that. Mac OS X Leopard and OpenSolaris all respond with just the hostname. RHEL3 (shudder) responds with all kinds of junk.

Answer 7

Two solutions: 1) Create a txt-file containing the hostname of the server and then let the script read it. 2) Call the CLI with hostname as parameter

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