I want to run a PHP script from the command line, but I also want to set a variable for that script.
Browser version: script.php?var=3
Command line: php -f script.php (but how do I give it the variable containing 3?)
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Script:
<?php
// number of arguments passed to the script
var_dump($argc);
// the arguments as an array. first argument is always the script name
var_dump($argv);
Command:
$ php -f test.php foo bar baz
int(4)
array(4) {
[0]=>
string(8) "test.php"
[1]=>
string(3) "foo"
[2]=>
string(3) "bar"
[3]=>
string(3) "baz"
}
Also, take a look at using PHP from the command line.
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Hintswen
works fine... other answers would work too but this was first and does make it look better than having a long list of variable names and data.
Besides argv (as Ionut mentioned), you can use environment variables:
E.g.:
var = 3 php -f test.php
In test.php:
$var = getenv("var");
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As well as using argc and argv as indicated by Ionut G. Stan, you could also use the PEAR module Console_Getopt which can parse out unix-style command line options. See this article for more information.
Alternatively, there's similar functionality in the Zend Framework in the Zend_Console_Getopt class.
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A lot of solutions put the arguments into variables according to their order. For example,
myfile.php 5 7
will put the 5 into the first variable and 7 into the next variable.
I wanted named arguments:
myfile.php a=1 x=8
so that I can use them as variable names in the PHP code.
The link that Ionuț G. Stan gave at http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php
gave me the answer.
sep16 at psu dot edu:
You can easily parse command line arguments into the $_GET variable by using the parse_str() function.
<?php
parse_str(implode('&', array_slice($argv, 1)), $_GET);
?>
It behaves exactly like you'd expect with cgi-php.
$ php -f somefile.php a=1 b[]=2 b[]=3
This will set $_GET['a'] to '1' and $_GET['b'] to array('2', '3').
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Nabi K.A.Z.
IMPORTANT: Must use
if (PHP_SAPI === 'cli') before of parse_str function, because does not overwrite $_GET when use on web.