Passing variables on the command line

[Anon]

Normally if I want to pass a variable when using php as a module from one script to another I could just use scriptname.php?var=value but when calling a script from the command line ie #php scriptname.php the same doesn't work. So what I am looking for is a way to do this. I could set environment variables, but that's not what I am looking to do -- I just wanna pass a variable to the script.

Thanks,
A A R O N

[Anon]

There's a column on using php as a shell-scripting language at
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/darrell20000319.php3

You probably don't want to rewrite the script to use the argv[] aray, but you could write a command-line version that's just a wrapper:

shellscript.php
<php
$var1=$argv[1];
$var2=$argv[2];
include('realscript.php');
?>