Hi all,

How do a run a .php file via shell script (CLI ) but providing
parameters?

For example to run foo.php in unix I run the command:

php foo.php

But how do I pass parameters like in web interface: foo.php?
param1=value&param2=value2 via command Line?

The command:

php foo.php?arg1=value&arg2=value2

Will not work and the just explain how to pass arguments that I
understand that is not parameters like in web - I can not modify
foo.php to make it get arguments, only standard web parameters
(retrieved via $_GET ).

Thanks

Erico

I'm not interested in passing arguments ($argv[]), but parameters
($_GET[]):

if I do it like web:
www.xxx.com/foo.php?name=Erico$age=33

I will get Erico as result for $_GET['name']

but how I do the same for this same script via CLI as I can not change
foo.php?

it will not work if I send arguments:

php foo.php name=Erico age=33

as arguments will fill $argv[] but $_GET[] will be empty.

Defranco wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How do a run a .php file via shell script (CLI ) but providing
> parameters?
>
> For example to run foo.php in unix I run the command:
>
> php foo.php
>
> But how do I pass parameters like in web interface: foo.php?
> param1=value&param2=value2 via command Line?
>
> The command:
>
> php foo.php?arg1=value&arg2=value2
>
> Will not work and the just explain how to pass arguments that I
> understand that is not parameters like in web - I can not modify
> foo.php to make it get arguments, only standard web parameters
> (retrieved via $_GET ).
>
> Thanks
>
> Erico
>

Just like you pass PHP arguments (like the script name):

php script.php arg1 arg2 arg3

php -? provides this information.

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> I'm not interested in passing arguments ($argv[]), but parameters
> ($_GET[]):

> if I do it like web:
> www.xxx.com/foo.php?name=Erico$age=33

> I will get Erico as result for $_GET['name']

> but how I do the same for this same script via CLI as I can not change
> foo.php?

> it will not work if I send arguments:

> php foo.php name=Erico age=33

> as arguments will fill $argv[] but $_GET[] will be empty.

That's right. It is a command line interface (CLI). There is no GET.

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Defranco wrote:
> I'm not interested in passing arguments ($argv[]), but parameters
> ($_GET[]):
>
> if I do it like web:
> www.xxx.com/foo.php?name=Erico$age=33
>
> I will get Erico as result for $_GET['name']
>
> but how I do the same for this same script via CLI as I can not change
> foo.php?
>
> it will not work if I send arguments:
>
> php foo.php name=Erico age=33
>
> as arguments will fill $argv[] but $_GET[] will be empty.
>

You can't. $_GET is strictly a webserver parameter.

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Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> You can't. $_GET is strictly a webserver parameter.

What you *could* do would be to prepend a little routine to your code
which checks to see if any parameters have been passed to $argc and parses
them into $_GET.

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Thanks for the answers!

/defranco