> Phil Ewington - 43 Plc wrote on donderdag 10 juni 2004 15:11:
>
> >> Phil Ewington - 43 Plc wrote on donderdag 10 juni 2004 14:27:
> >>
> >>>> Phil Ewington - 43 Plc wrote on donderdag 10 juni 2004 12:58:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi All,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can anyone tell me how to pass arguments to a PHP script from the
> >>>>> command line? I know I need to use the -args option but how
> >>>>> exactly, I have tried the following...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> /usr/bin/php myscript.php -args key=value
> >>>>
> >>>> You don't have to call the -args argument. just run the script
> >>>> from command line like this:
> >>>>
> >>>> php myscript.php value
> >>>>
> >>>> Where value is the argument you want to use in the script.
> >>>> These arguments are stored in an arrray ($argv).
> >>>>
> >>>> Do a print_r($argv) and you can see the content.
> >>>
> >>> OK, but if no param name is passed in, I assume that the order they
> >>> are passed in as must be correct or the script will not know what
> >>> values belong to which parameters? This seems a little odd, I assume
> >>> that $argv only exists when accessed from the command line? My
> >>> script needs to be excuted from both command line and from web
> >>> browsers.
> >>>
> >>
> >> How do you mean the order must be correct. Use some code like this
> >> to give it an index value. for ($counter=0; $counter < $argc;
> >> $counter++) { list($key, $value) = each($argv);
> >> echo ("key ". $key . "has value : " . $value . "\n");
> >> }
> >
> > Your example was...
> >
> > php myscript.php value
> >
> > That is just a value, no parameter name as with a query string, take
> > this example...
> >
> > php myscript.php a b
> >
> > Let's say that this was requested from a browser like
> > myscript.php?1=a&2=b
> >
> > PHP uses 1 & 2 to refer to the values, but the values would get mixed
> > up if I was to use...
> >
> > $argv[0] & $argv[1]
> >
> > and the order of a and b were different when the script was called.
> > Does that make sense? I find it odd that I need to write more code to
> > 1) check $_GET and 2) check $argv, also simple error checking will
> > fail for command line stuff when checking that all the required
> > params are present.
> >
> >
>
> ic now i understand what you mean :)
> Why not just pass the arguments on commandline like this:
>
> php myscript.php 1=a 2=b
>
> and then just split on '=' to get key & value.
That will do for me! Still more coding than I would like and not how I think
it should be implemented, but hey we don't actually live in an ideal world
do we ;o)
Thanks for your help, it is much appreciated.
- Phil.
> >>> From what i understand the argv & argc are only avaliable when the
> >> script is run from commandline. Just do a check on this and if not
> >> there get some $_POST or $_GET variables.
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> but this does not work, the script executes but key is not
> >>>>> available as $_GET["key"] in my script. Any pointers will be much
> >>>>> appreciated.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> TIA
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Phil.
> >>>>>
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