Entry Point Error when running PHP script from command line

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I am trying to schedule a PHP script to run on Windows by writing a batch file. Here is the line that runs the script:

C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP>php.exe -f D:\Web\Sites\scriptPage.php

This runs the page and the results of the page process fine but it is poping up this message

"The procedure entry point zend_ini_string_ex could not be located in the dynamic link library php5.dll"

I am not sure why this is happening. We are not using Zend at all on this. I have tried this on a few different pages and the same thing happens.

Any help on this would be great.

Thanks!

Could be xdebug causing this. On the production machine you won't have to worry about this. — matino
– matino, Commented Nov 16, 2011 at 15:24

Artur Kedzior · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-28 15:33:03Z

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I had this problem when I installed xdebug under Apache and PHP.

In your php.ini find a line that looks like this:

zend_extension_ts="c:/PHP/ext/php_xdebug-2.1.2-5.2-vc6.dll"

and comment it out.

If you do need to use xdebug make sure you have downloaded the right version of xdebug for your php installation. I had Apache 2.2.17 with PHP 5.2.17 and I was trying to install xdebug for PHP 5.3 which gave me extactly this error message:

*The procedure entry point zend_ini_string_ex could not be located in the dynamic link library php5.dll*

answered Feb 28, 2012 at 15:33

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Juris Vaiders · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-25 11:56:56Z

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I know it's been a while since this is solved but I run into problem with the same symptoms. I have Zend Server installed on a Windows server and was trying to configure scheduled task but it was not launching

the procedure entry point php_checkuid could not be located in the dynamic limk library php5.dll

Problem was that previously I had another PHP version (standalone, not with Zend Server) installed and in Windows Environment Variables PHPRC variable was pointing to that old version of PHP. I changed this variable so it pointed to Zend Srever's PHP and everything worked.

answered Jul 25, 2013 at 11:56

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Ken · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-01 00:04:37Z

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I had a standalone version of PHP installed and then installed Zend Server. Like Juris mentioned, the PHPRC variable was pointing to the stand alone php5.dll. I changed the path and all is good.

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Joe Williams · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-05 19:53:20Z

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For future googlers: uncommenting the opcache enable and opcache_cli seemed to fix the problem for me.

That being said, I don't know what the error means

answered Dec 5, 2015 at 19:53

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