PHP and Ant

[Anon]

I'm building a build system using Ant that calls PHP via the command line option. What I'd like to do is pass in an argument to PHP and generate pages dynamically based on the argument value.

What I can't figure out is how to read the command line parameter in PHP. Any help?

thanks,
Mike

here's the Ant piece, the string "arg1=..." should show up on the command line seen by php
<target name="build" depends="prepare-build">
<exec executable="php"
dir="${srcdir}"
output="${outdir}/template2.html">
<arg line="${srcdir}/template2.php"/>
<arg line="arg1=43214321" />
</exec>
</target>

[Anon]

Use $argc and $argv[], just like in C, like so, if your script looked like this:

<?php
foreach ($argv as $key=>$value){
print $key.":".$value."\n";
}
?>

then calling it like this:

php -q testbed this is a test

will give you this:

0:testbed
1:this
2:is
3:a
4:test

as output. Note that the zeroth arg is the name of the script.