PHP Cli Pass Repeating Command Line Arguments

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I'm was wondering if anyone knows of a native function to parse command line options in PHP via the cli that allows repeating options? getopt doesn't like something like: program.php -w "WARNING1" -w "WARNING2"

I would make use of the pipe symbol and get the user to pass me WARNING1|WARNING2 however because each option is a regex they may use this already, and I've seen perl working this way.

So any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

You could certainly do this by manually reading and parsing the values out of the global $argv variable. That will contain all command line values: php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.argv.php — jpschroeder
– jpschroeder, Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 16:11

thepiyush13 · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-18 16:03:07Z

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You can retrieve multiple command line options by

Using some separator character and options variable with getopt
Use regular getopt without -w flag

php script_name.php Jarrod "cake, tea and ice cream"

will give you, jarrod and cake,tea and ice cream as arguments

Also take a look here : http://php.net/manual/en/function.getopt.php and read more about options and long options.

edited Dec 18, 2015 at 16:03

answered Dec 18, 2015 at 15:55

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trevrobwhite Over a year ago

Many thanks, it's not quite what I wanted, but the reply is much appreciated.

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