command line php

[Anon]

On linux, I know that you can issue at the prompt /usr/bin/php runme.php and the script will run from the command line.

How do you pass arguements to scripts on the command line. For example we have this program that is called through the browser using:

http://localhost/loaddata.php?id=1010&section=1&field=20

This was an ok way to load data into mysql when we were only dealing with limited test data. Now I need to know a simple way of calling it when I have thousands of lines of data. I really do not want to rewrite the script in perl if there is away to do it from the command line.

Help is appericated.

Thanks

Ray

[Anon]

There's an exec and system command.
So to run a program from the prompt it'll be

exec("/path/app $id $ion $field", $outputArray, $returnValue);

Or something like that, depending on how your program accepts it's arguments. And the program must be executable by the apache user ie the "nobody" or "apache" users.

-Euan