I'd like to add that this bug exists on my 2005 Aug 31 PHP 5.1 / Win XP Pro.

It seems that it is a bug and not a documentation problem, because each of php.exe, php-win.exe, and php-cgi.exe include the auto_prepend_file if invoked in interactive mode.  Please change the Category appropriately.

Here's how I tested (must be on a windows system):
Make one file, pop.php:
<?php
  function popup($text, $title="PHP popup") {
    $oWSH = new COM("WScript.Shell");
    if (is_null($text)) $text = "NULL";
    $oWSH->Popup($text, 4, $title, 131120);
  }
  popup ("inside pop.php");
?>

now it may be tested as follows from the command line (type in one single long line at the prompt from the directory of php.php):
echo "<?php popup('prepend OK');var_dump(get_included_files());exit(); ?>" | php.exe -d auto_prepend_file=pop.php -a

Of course you can replace php.exe with php-win.exe or php-cgi.exe  In all three cases you get the expected behaviour of two popups showing.

It would be very useful to have this bug fixed for my situation where I want to have an automatic include file for the CLI versions of PHP, but I want to disable that include file when I fall into PHP via Apache.  Which disabling I would do my means of the apache directive:
PHP_value auto_prepend_file none

Csaba Gabor from Vienna

PS.  I have verified that the -r version does not work by typing, from the command line:
php.exe -r pop.php
php-win.exe -r pop.php
(php-cgi.exe doesn't take a -r argument)

Oops, that's not how I verified (I was mixing tests there).  I verified using:
php.exe -d auto_prepend_file=pop.php -r popup('Hi');
php-win.exe -d auto_prepend_file=pop.php -r popup('Hi');
and these both failed since they didn't find popup defined.

Please see http://bugs.php.net/34367 for a distinct but related bug.

Csaba

No need to have two reports about exactly same issue.

Uh, this is a different bug than the one at 34367. Pretty clearly.