Specifying command line varaibles

[pdstein]

I understand that php scripts can be called from the command line and I understand that I can pass variables to the the script like this:

php.exe script.php ARGV[0] ARGV[1] ARGV[2]

But is there a way to specify the names of the variables being passed?

[AstroTeg]

No. But you would use $argv[] to retrieve them. You would need to use a consistent order to how the parameters are passed, or force the user to use option attributes. Such as: php myscript.php -left:2 -right:3 -up:1 or somethign silly like that. Then you parse each one and store it as you see fit.

[pdstein]

Thanks for your reply. The goal was to be able to simply call a script that is usually executed from a web browser from the command line so that I didn't have to create a special instance of the script specifically for the command. But I guess that is impossible.

thanks again.

[AstroTeg]

You could use lynx. Trick is the parameters you wish to specify would have to be "get" parameters. But lynx is cool because you can tell it to just hit the page and not do anything else, then exit (you can get fancy and tell lynx to save the page to disk too). WGet would probalby work just fine for this too.

If you just have to send parameters via post, then curl is the way to go.