A new article has been posted over on SitePoint.com from Harry Fuecks covering the first part of a series on PHP on the Command Line.

We all know PHP is a great language for building Web applications with but we all also know there's a lot more to running a serious Website than just the user interface.

In this two-part series, I'll be looking at PHP's Command Line Interface (CLI) in detail. This first part will concentrate on the fundamentals; the input and output to a command line script. The second will look further at what PEAR has to offer for the command line, as well as some of PHP's less charted functionality.

In this part of the series, he introduces you to the CLI, setting up and creating your first script, as well as dealing with input/output and errors that might come along. This piece is definitely a good place to start for anyone interested...