PHP/Utility Function/argv

Parsing commmand-line arguments

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<?php for ($i = 1; $i < $argc; $i++) {

   switch ($argv[$i]) {
   case "-v":
       // set a flag
       $verbose = true;
       break;
   case "-c":
       // advance to the next argument
       $i++;
       // if it"s set, save the value
       if (isset($argv[$i])) {
           $config_file = $argv[$i];
       } else {
           // quit if no filename specified
           die("Must specify a filename after -c");
       }
       break;
   case "-q":
       $quiet = true;
       break;
   default:
       die("Unknown argument: ".$argv[$i]);
       break;
   }

} ?>

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Using $argc and $argv in CLI PHP

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<?php

   if(!isset($argv[1]) || ($argv[1] != "-d")) {
       echo "Usage:\n";
       echo "\n{$argv[0]} -d\n";
       exit(-1);
   }
   echo "You passed the command line argument "-d"\n";
   exit(0);

?>

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