Running PHP-FPM, especially for website hosts using NGINX, is missing an important functionality to execute PHP scripts directly from the command-line.

With this simple script, one can execute PHP scripts directly from CLI. It is convenient to test PHP in CLI, run batch operations with PHP and for cronjobs.

This script is based on Mathias Leppich's gist, with added support for loading the script from a file (instead of input code as CLI argument), query-string parameters and verification of not only the exit code of the script - but also http-status-code.

See more details in: https://elisegev.medium.com/running-php-fpm-in-cli-e1f0f4b4f59a

RHEL / CentOS

yum --enablerepo=epel install fcgi

Ubuntu / Debian

apt-get install libfcgi0ldbl

PHP script needs to be executable and owned by an allowed user (ACL):

vi /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
# add your ACL user to the comma-delimited list: listen.acl_users
# e.g. listen.acl_users = apache,nginx,myuser
systemctl restart php-fpm

Run PHP script:

./php-fqm-cli -f <path_to_php_file>

Run PHP script with query params:

./php-fqm-cli -f <path_to_php_file> -q "<query_params>"

Example:

./php-fqm-cli -f myscript.php -q "param1=val1&param2=val2"