Passing parameters to php-shellscripts

[Anon]

Hi,

I gotta play a little bit around with php in shell mode, as I have to write some cron jobs, which generate PDF repors overnight hope it will ever work 🙂) )

Thus, I need to pass some data to the script. lets say we have a lil script like this:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?php
echo "\n";
echo "Value of the $test:".$test;
echo "\n";
?>

How can I pass $test as parameter* to this script. I dont want to use ugly env-vars.

Thx

[Anon]

Check out the varibles $argv and $argc (they are automatically set by PHP in $HTTP_SERVER_VARS[argc] and $HTTP_SERVER_VARS[argv]).

that way you can use

/usr/yourscript/program.php -n -f -a -fxx asdfas.html

or something of that sorts... Then all those will be in argv, argc holds the count of arguments the user entered.

Hope that helps.

-Josh

[Anon]

Thx in advance, thats exactly what Inwas looking for 🙂