How can I avoid showing "#!/usr/bin/php" on PHP?

Question

I want PHP scripts to run both on command line and website (I use Apache and Nginx) so I put #!/usr/bin/php in the first line of my scripts but that appears on the website...

Answer 1

I solved the problem using output buffering. My script now looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
@ob_end_clean();
...

Note: There is no ?> at the end of the file. This is actually a good practice when writing PHP scripts. This prevents any garbage text to be accidentally printed.

Note: The PHP documentation for ob_end_clean() says that:

The output buffer must be started by ob_start() with PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_CLEANABLE and PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_REMOVABLE flags. Otherwise ob_end_clean() will not work.

It seems that this is done automatically when PHP runs from command line.

Answer 2

There is no need to have #!/usr/bin/php in your code, just run CLI script using php, for example php /path/to/file.php or /usr/bin/php /path/to/file.php.