Command Line PHP

Note: Because both --enable-cli and --enable-cgi are enabled by default, simply having --enable-cli in your configure line does not necessarily mean the CLI will be copied as {PREFIX}/bin/php during make install.

What SAPI do I have?: From a shell, typing php -v will tell you whether php is CGI or CLI. See also the function php_sapi_name() and the constant PHP_SAPI.

Note: A Unix manual page was added in PHP 4.3.2. You may view this by typing man php in your shell environment.

Directive	`CLI SAPI` default value	Comment
html_errors	`FALSE`	It can be quite hard to read the error message in your shell when it's cluttered with all those meaningless `HTML` tags, therefore this directive defaults to `FALSE`.
implicit_flush	`TRUE`	It is desired that any output coming from print(), echo() and friends is immediately written to the output and not cached in any buffer. You still can use output buffering if you want to defer or manipulate standard output.
max_execution_time	0 (unlimited)	Due to endless possibilities of using PHP in shell environments, the maximum execution time has been set to unlimited. Whereas applications written for the web are often executed very quickly, shell application tend to have a much longer execution time.
register_argc_argv	`TRUE`	Because this setting is `TRUE` you will always have access to argc (number of arguments passed to the application) and argv (array of the actual arguments) in the `CLI SAPI`. As of PHP 4.3.0, the PHP variables `$argc` and `$argv` are registered and filled in with the appropriate values when using the `CLI SAPI`. Prior to this version, the creation of these variables behaved as they do in `CGI` and `MODULE` versions which requires the PHP directive register_globals to be on. Regardless of version or register_globals setting, you can always go through either $_SERVER or `$HTTP_SERVER_VARS`. Example: `$_SERVER['argv']`

16-Sep-2006 12:05

It seems like 
						'max_execution_time' doesn't work on CLI. 

						

						<?php

						php -d 
						max_execution_time=20

						       -r
						'$foo = 
						ini_get("max_execution_time"); var_dump($foo);'

						?>

						will print string(2) "20", but if you'l run 
						infinity while: while(true) for example, it wouldn't 
						stop after 20 seconds.

						Testes on Linux Gentoo, PHP 5.1.6.

hobby6_at_hotmail.com
15-Sep-2006 04:59

On windows, you can simulate a 
						cls by echoing out just \r.  This will keep the cursor 
						on the same line and overwrite what was on the line.

						

						for example:

						

						<?php

						   echo 
						"Starting Iteration" 
						. 
						"\n\r";

						   for ($i=0;$i<10000;$i++) 
						{

						       echo "\r" 
						. $i;

						   }

						   echo "Ending Iteration"
						. 
						"\n\r";

						?>

goalain eat gmail dont com
21-Aug-2006 01:20

If your php script doesn't run 
						with shebang (#!/usr/bin/php),

						and it issues the beautifull and informative error 
						message:

						"Command not found."  just dos2unix yourscript.php

						et voila.

						

						If your php script doesn't run with shebang 
						(#/usr/bin/php),

						and it issues the beautifull and informative message:

						"Invalid null command." it's probably because the "!" is 
						missing in the the shebang line (like what's above) or 
						something else in that area.

						

						\Alon

stromdotcom at hotmail dot com
21-Feb-2006 11:27

Spawning php-win.exe as a child 
						process to handle scripting in Windows applications has 
						a few quirks (all having to do with pipes between 
						Windows apps and console apps).

						

						To do this in C++:

						

						// We will run php.exe as a child process after creating

						// two pipes and attaching them to stdin and stdout

						// of the child process

						// Define sa struct such that child inherits our handles

						

						SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sa = { sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES) 
						};

						sa.bInheritHandle = TRUE;

						sa.lpSecurityDescriptor = NULL;

						

						// Create the handles for our two pipes (two handles per 
						pipe, one for each end)

						// We will have one pipe for stdin, and one for stdout, 
						each with a READ and WRITE end

						HANDLE hStdoutRd, hStdoutWr, hStdinRd, hStdinWr;

						

						// Now create the pipes, and make them inheritable

						CreatePipe (&hStdoutRd, &hStdoutWr, &sa, 0))

						SetHandleInformation(hStdoutRd, HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT, 0);

						CreatePipe (&hStdinRd, &hStdinWr, &sa, 0)

						SetHandleInformation(hStdinWr, HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT, 0);

						

						// Now we have two pipes, we can create the process

						// First, fill out the usage structs

						STARTUPINFO si = { sizeof(STARTUPINFO) };

						PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;

						si.dwFlags = STARTF_USESTDHANDLES;

						si.hStdOutput = hStdoutWr;

						si.hStdInput  = hStdinRd;

						

						// And finally, create the process

						CreateProcess (NULL, "c:\\php\\php-win.exe", NULL, NULL, 
						TRUE, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, NULL, NULL, &si, &pi);

						

						// Close the handles we aren't using

						CloseHandle(hStdoutWr);

						CloseHandle(hStdinRd);

						

						// Now that we have the process running, we can start 
						pushing PHP at it

						WriteFile(hStdinWr, "<?php 
						echo 
						'test'; 
						?>", 9, &dwWritten, NULL);

						

						// When we're done writing to stdin, we close that pipe

						CloseHandle(hStdinWr);

						

						// Reading from stdout is only slightly more complicated

						int i;

						

						std::string processed("");

						char buf[128];

						

						while ( (ReadFile(hStdoutRd, buf, 128, &dwRead, NULL) && 
						(dwRead != 0)) ) {

						   for (i = 0; i < dwRead; i++)

						       processed += buf[i];

						}    

						

						// Done reading, so close this handle too

						CloseHandle(hStdoutRd);

						

						A full implementation (implemented as a C++ class) is 
						available at
						
						http://www.stromcode.com

drewish at katherinehouse dot com
25-Sep-2005 01:08

When you're writing one line 
						php scripts remember that 'php://stdin' is your friend. 
						Here's a simple program I use to format PHP code for 
						inclusion on my blog:

						

						UNIX:

						  cat test.php | php -r "print 
						htmlentities(file_get_contents('php://stdin'));"

						

						DOS/Windows:

						  type test.php | php -r "print 
						htmlentities(file_get_contents('php://stdin'));"

OverFlow636 at gmail dot com
19-Sep-2005 01:27

I needed this, you proly wont 
						tho.

						puts the exicution args into $_GET

						<?php

						if ($argv)

						   for ($i=1;$i<count($argv);$i++)

						   {

						       $it 
						= 
						split("=",$argv[$i]);

						       $_GET[$it[0]] 
						= $it[1];

						   }

						?>

php at schabdach dot de
16-Sep-2005 10:06

To pass more than 9 arguments 
						to your php-script on Windows, you can use the 
						'shift'-command in a batch file. After using 'shift', %1 
						becomes %0, %2 becomes %1 and so on - so you can fetch 
						argument 10 etc. 

						

						Here's an example - hopefully ready-to-use - batch file:

						

						foo.bat:

						---------

						@echo off

						

						:init_arg

						set args=

						

						:get_arg

						shift

						if "%0"=="" goto :finish_arg

						set args=%args% %0

						goto :get_arg

						:finish_arg

						

						set php=C:\path\to\php.exe

						set ini=C:\path\to\php.ini

						%php% -c %ini% foo.php %args%

						---------

						

						Usage on commandline:

						foo -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -foo -bar

						

						A print_r($argv) will give you all of the passed 
						arguments.

Lasse Johansson
18-Aug-2005 02:53

Hi, parsing the commandline 
						(argv) can be very simple in PHP. 

						If you use keyword parms like:

						

						script.php parm1=value parm3=value

						

						All you have to do in script.php is:

						

						for ($i=1; $i < $argc; $i++) {parse_str($argv[$i]);}

						$startup=compact('parm1', 'parm2', 'parm3');

docey
14-Jul-2005 06:44

dunno if this is on linux the 
						same but on windows evertime

						you send somthing to the console screen php is waiting 
						for

						the console to return. therefor if you send a lot of 
						small 

						short amounts of text, the console is starting to be 
						using 

						more cpu-cycles then php and thus slowing the script.

						

						take a look at this sheme:

						cpu-cycle:1 ->php: print("a");

						cpu-cycle:2 ->cmd: output("a");

						cpu-cycle:3 ->php: print("b");

						cpu-cycle:4 ->cmd: output("b");

						cpu-cycle:5 ->php: print("c");

						cpu-cycle:6 ->cmd: output("c"); 

						cpu-cylce:7 ->php: print("d");

						cpu-cycle:8 ->cmd: output("d"); 

						cpu-cylce:9 ->php: print("e");

						cpu-cycle:0 ->cmd: output("e"); 

						

						on the screen just appears "abcde". but if you write 

						your script this way it will be far more faster:

						cpu-cycle:1 ->php: ob_start();

						cpu-cycle:2 ->php: print("abc");

						cpu-cycle:3 ->php: print("de");

						cpu-cycle:4 ->php: $data = ob_get_contents();

						cpu-cycle:5 ->php: ob_end_clean();

						cpu-cycle:6 ->php: print($data);

						cpu-cycle:7 ->cmd: output("abcde");

						

						now this is just a small example but if you are writing 
						an

						app that is outputting a lot to the console, i.e. a text

						based screen with frequent updates, then its much better
						

						to first cach all output, and output is as one big chunk 
						of

						text instead of one char a the time. 

						

						ouput buffering is ideal for this. in my script i 
						outputted

						almost 4000chars of info and just by caching it first, 
						it

						speeded up by almost 400% and dropped cpu-usage.

						

						because what is being displayed doesn't matter, be it 2

						chars or 40.0000 chars, just the call to output takes a
						

						great deal of time. remeber that.

						

						maybe someone can test if this is the same on unix-based

						systems. it seems that the STDOUT stream just waits for
						

						the console to report ready, before continueing 
						execution.

wallacebw
24-Jun-2005 09:07

For windows clearing the screen 
						using "system('cls');" does not work (at least for 
						me)...

						

						Although this is not pretty it works... Simply send 24 
						newlines after the output (for one line of output, 23 
						for two, etc

						

						Here is a sample function and usage:

						

						   function CLS($lines){  // $lines = number of lines of 
						output to keep

						       for($i=24;$i>=$lines;$i--) @$return.="\n";

						       return $return;

						   }

						 

						   fwrite(STDOUT,"Still Processing: Total Time ".$i." 
						Minutes so far..." . CLS(1));

						

						Hope This Helps,

						Wallacebw

linus at flowingcreativity dot net
30-May-2005 08:32

If you are using Windows XP (I 
						think this works on 2000, too) and you want to be able 
						to right-click a .php file and run it from the command 
						line, follow these steps:

						

						1. Run regedit.exe and *back up the registry.*

						2. Open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and find the ".php" key.

						

						IF IT EXISTS:

						------------------

						3. Look at the "(Default)" value inside it and find the 
						key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT with that name.

						4. Open the "shell" key inside that key. Skip to 8.

						

						IF IT DOESN'T:

						------------------

						5. Add a ".php" key and set the "(Default)" value inside 
						it to something like "phpscriptfile".

						6. Create another key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT called 
						"phpscriptfile" or whatever you chose.

						7. Create a key inside that one called "shell".

						

						8. Create a key inside that one called "run".

						9. Set the "(Default)" value inside "run" to whatever 
						you want the menu option to be (e.g. "Run").

						10. Create a key inside "run" called "command".

						11. Set the "(Default)" value inside "command" to:

						

						cmd.exe /k C:\php\php.exe "%1"

						

						Make sure the path to PHP is appropriate for your 
						installation. Why not just run it with php.exe directly? 
						Because you (presumably) want the console window to 
						remain open after the script ends.

						

						You don't need to set up a webserver for this to work. I 
						downloaded PHP just so I could run scripts on my 
						computer. Hope this is useful!

roberto dot dimas at gmail dot com
26-May-2005 02:52

One of the things I like about 
						perl and vbscripts, is the fact that I can name a file 
						e.g. 'test.pl' and just have to type 'test, without the 
						.pl extension' on the windows command line and the 
						command processor knows that it is a perl file and 
						executes it using the perl command interpreter.

						

						I did the same with the file extension .php3 (I will use 
						php3 exclusivelly for command line php scripts, I'm 
						doing this because my text editor VIM 6.3 already has 
						the correct syntax highlighting for .php3 files ).

						

						I modified the PATHEXT environment variable in Windows 
						XP, from the " 'system' control panel applet->'Advanced' 
						tab->'Environment Variables' button-> 'System variables' 
						text area".

						

						Then from control panel "Folder Options" applet-> 'File 
						Types' tab, I added a new file extention (php3), using 
						the button 'New'  and typing php3 in the window that 
						pops up.

						

						Then in the 'Details for php3 extention' area I used the 
						'Change' button to look for the Php.exe executable so 
						that the php3 file extentions are associated with the 
						php executable.

						

						You have to modify also the 'PATH' environment variable, 
						pointing to the folder where the php executable is 
						installed

						

						Hope this is useful to somebody

diego dot rodrigues at poli dot usp dot br
02-May-2005 09:29

#!/usr/bin/php -q

						<?

						
						/**********************************************

						* Simple argv[] parser for CLI scripts

						* Diego Mendes Rodrigues - S㯠Paulo - Brazil

						* diego.m.rodrigues [at] gmail [dot] com

						* May/2005

						**********************************************/

						

						class 
						arg_parser 
						{

						   var $argc;

						   var $argv;

						   var $parsed;

						   var $force_this;

						

						   function arg_parser($force_this="") 
						{

						       global $argc,
						$argv;

						       $this->argc
						= 
						$argc;

						       $this->argv
						= 
						$argv;

						       $this->parsed
						= array();

						       

						       array_push($this->parsed,

						                           array($this->argv[0]) 
						);

						

						       if ( !empty($force_this) 
						)

						           if ( is_array($force_this) 
						)

						               $this->force_this
						= 
						$force_this;

						

						       //Sending parameters 
						to $parsed

						       if ( 
						$this->argc
						> 
						1 ) {

						           for($i=1
						; 
						$i<
						$this->argc
						; 
						$i++) 
						{

						               //We only 
						have passed -xxxx

						               if ( 
						substr($this->argv[$i],0,1) 
						== "-" 
						) {

						                   //Se 
						temos -xxxx xxxx

						                   if (
						$this->argc
						> ($i+1) 
						) {

						                       if ( 
						substr($this->argv[$i+1],0,1) 
						!= "-" 
						) {

						                           
						array_push($this->parsed,

						                               array($this->argv[$i],

						                                   
						$this->argv[$i+1]) 
						);

						                           
						$i++;

						                           continue;

						                       }

						                   }

						               }

						               //We have 
						passed -xxxxx1 xxxxx2

						               array_push($this->parsed,

						                                                 array($this->argv[$i]) 
						);

						           }

						       }

						

						               //Testing if 
						all necessary parameters have been passed

						               $this->force();

						   }

						

						   //Testing if one 
						parameter have benn passed

						   function 
						passed($argumento) 
						{

						       for($i=0
						; 
						$i<
						$this->argc
						; 
						$i++)
						

						           if ( $this->parsed[$i][0] 
						== $argumento 
						)

						               return $i;

						       return 0;

						   }

						

						   //Testing if you have 
						passed a estra argument, -xxxx1 xxxxx2

						   function 
						full_passed($argumento) 
						{

						       $findArg 
						= 
						$this->passed($argumento);

						       if ( $findArg 
						)

						           if ( count($this->parsed[$findArg] 
						) > 1 
						) 

						               return 
						$findArg;

						       return 0;

						   }

						

						       //Returns  xxxxx2 at 
						a " -xxxx1 xxxxx2" call

						   function 
						get_full_passed($argumento) 
						{

						               $findArg
						= 
						$this->full_passed($argumento);

						

						               if ( 
						$findArg )

						                   return 
						$this->parsed[$findArg][1];

						

						               return;

						       }

						   

						   //Necessary parameters 
						to script

						   function 
						force() 
						{

						       if ( is_array(
						$this->force_this
						) ) {

						           for($i=0
						; 
						$i<
						count($this->force_this) 
						; $i++) 
						{

						               if ( $this->force_this[$i][1] 
						== "SIMPLE" 

						                     && !$this->passed($this->force_this[$i][0])

						               )

						                   die("\n\nMissing 
						" . 
						$this->force_this[$i][0] 
						. "\n\n");

						

						                               if ( 
						$this->force_this[$i][1] 
						== "FULL"

						                                     
						&& !$this->full_passed($this->force_this[$i][0])
						

						               )

						                                       die("\n\nMissing 
						" . 
						$this->force_this[$i][0] 
						." <arg>\n\n");

						           }

						       }

						   }

						}

						

						//Example

						$forcar 
						= array(

						       array("-name",
						"FULL"),

						       array("-email","SIMPLE") 
						);

						

						$parser 
						= new 
						arg_parser($forcar);

						

						if ( $parser->passed("-show") 
						) 

						   echo "\nGoing...:";

						

						echo "\nName: " 
						. 
						$parser->get_full_passed("-name");

						

						if ( $parser->full_passed("-email") 
						)  

						   echo "\nEmail: " 
						. 
						$parser->get_full_passed("-email");

						else

						       echo "\nEmail: 
						default";

						

						if ( $parser->full_passed("-copy") 
						)

						       echo "\nCopy To: "
						. 
						$parser->get_full_passed("-copy");

						

						echo "\n\n";

						?>

						

						TESTING

						=====

						[diego@Homer diego]$ ./en_arg_parser.php -name -email 
						cool -copy Ana

						

						Missing -name <arg>

						

						[diego@Homer diego]$ ./en_arg_parser.php -name diego 
						-email cool -copy Ana

						

						Name: diego

						Email: cool

						Copy To: Ana

						

						[diego@Homer diego]$ ./en_arg_parser.php -name diego 
						-email  -copy Ana

						

						Name: diego

						Email: default

						Copy To: Ana

						

						[diego@Homer diego]$ ./en_arg_parser.php -name diego 
						-email

						

						Name: diego

						Email: default

						

						[diego@Homer diego]$

rh@hdesigndotdemondotcodotuk
25-Apr-2005 02:28

In a bid to save time out of 
						lives when calling up php from the Command Line on Mac 
						OS X. 

						

						I just wasted hours on this. Having written a routine 
						which used the MCRYPT library, and tested it via a 
						browser, I then set up a crontab to run the script from 
						the command line every hour (to do automated backups 
						from mysql using mysqldump, encrypt them using mcrypt, 
						then email them and ftp them off to remote locations).
						

						

						Everything worked fine from the browser, but failed 
						every time from the cron task with "Call to undefined 
						function: mcrypt [whatever]". 

						

						Only after much searching do I realise that the CGI and 
						CLI versions are differently compiled, and have 
						different modules attached (I'm using the entropy.ch 
						install for Mac OS-X, php v4.3.2 and mysql v4.0.18).

						

						I still can not find a way to resolve the problem, so I 
						have decided instead to remove the script from the SSL 
						side of the server, and run it using a crontab with CURL 
						to localhost or 127.0.0.1 in order that it will run 
						through Apache's php module.

						

						Just thought this might help some other people tearing 
						their hair out. If anyone knows a quick fix to add the 
						mcrypt module onto the CLI php without any tricky 
						re-installing, it'd be really helpful.

						

						Meantime the workaround does the job, not as neatly 
						though.

merrittd at dhcmc dot com
28-Mar-2005 02:23

Example 43-2 shows how to 
						create a DOS batch file to run a PHP script form the 
						command line using: 

						

						@c:\php\cli\php.exe script.php %1 %2 %3 %4

						

						Here is an updated version of the DOS batch file:

						

						@c:\php\cli\php.exe %~n0.php %*

						

						This will run a PHP file (i.e. script.php) with the same 
						base file name (i.e. script) as the DOS batch file (i.e. 
						script.bat) and pass all parameters (not just the first 
						four as in example 43-2) from the DOS batch file to the 
						PHP file.  

						

						This way all you have to do is copy/rename the DOS batch 
						file to match the name of your PHP script file without 
						ever having to actually modify the contents of the DOS 
						batch file to match the file name of the PHP script.

13-Mar-2005 02:52

Here is very simple, but 
						usefull Command Line handler class. it may be usefull 
						for your apps.

						

						
						http://www.pure-php.de/node/16

						<?

						require_once("CliHandler.class.php");

						

						class AnyClass{

						   public 
						function 
						start(){

						       return "started";

						   }

						   public 
						function 
						stop(){

						       return "stoppded";

						   }

						}

						$cli 
						= new 
						CliHandler(new
						AnyClass());

						$cli->run();

						?>

						

						CliHandler accepts any class als argument.

						Try this.

						

						/usr/local/php/PHP5 CliHandler.class.php

						output: Try these command:

						start

						stop

						enter "start"

						output: started

bertrand at toggg dot com
07-Mar-2005 09:40

If you want to pass directly 
						PHP code to the interpreter and you don't have only CGI, 
						not the CLI SAPI so you miss the -r option.

						If you're lucky enough to be on a nix like system, then 
						tou can still use the pipe solution as the 3. way to 
						command CLI SAPI described above, using a pipe ('|').

						

						Then works for CGI SAPI:

						

						$ echo '<?php 
						echo 
						"coucou\n"; 
						phpinfo();
						/* or any code */ 
						?>' | php

						

						NOTE: unlike commands passed to the -r option, here you 
						NEED the PHP tags.

jeromenelson at gmail dot com
07-Mar-2005 02:21

This is the most simple way to 
						get the named parameter.  Write the script test.php as 
						...

						

						<?

						   echo 
						"Yo! my name is ".$_REQUEST["name"]."\n";

						?>

						

						and run this program as follows

						

						# php -f test.php name=Jerry

						Yo! my name is Jerry

						

						I am using PHP 4.3.3 (CGI) in Fedora Core 1 and It is 
						working perfectly

						

						God Bless You!

obfuscated at emailaddress dot com
25-Feb-2005 09:15

This posting is not a php-only 
						problem, but hopefully will save someone a few hours of 
						headaches.  Running on MacOS (although this could happen 
						on any *nix I suppose), I was unable to get the script 
						to execute without specifically envoking php from the 
						command line:

						

						[macg4:valencia/jobs] tim% test.php

						./test.php: Command not found.

						

						However, it worked just fine when php was envoked on the 
						command line:

						

						[macg4:valencia/jobs] tim% php test.php

						Well, here we are...  Now what?

						

						Was file access mode set for executable?  Yup.

						

						[macg4:valencia/jobs] tim% ls -l 

						total 16

						-rwxr-xr-x  1 tim  staff  242 Feb 24 17:23 test.php

						

						And you did, of course, remember to add the php command 
						as the first line of your script, yeah?  Of course.

						

						#!/usr/bin/php

						<?php 
						print 
						"Well, here we are...  Now what?\n";
						?>

						

						So why dudn't it work?  Well, like I said... on a 
						Mac.... but I also occasionally edit the files on my 
						Windows portable (i.e. when I'm travelling and don't 
						have my trusty Mac available)...  Using, say, WordPad on 
						Windows... and BBEdit on the Mac...

						

						Aaahhh... in BBEdit check how the file is being saved!  
						Mac?  Unix?  or Dos?  Bingo.  It had been saved as Dos 
						format.  Change it to Unix:

						

						[macg4:valencia/jobs] tim% ./test.php

						Well, here we are...  Now what?

						[macg4:valencia/jobs] tim% 

						

						NB: If you're editing your php files on multiple 
						platforms (i.e. Windows and Linux), make sure you double 
						check the files are saved in a Unix format...  those 
						\r's and \n's 'll bite cha!

db at digitalmediacreation dot ch
22-Feb-2005 12:49

A very important point missing 
						here (I lost hours on it and hope to avoid this to you) 
						:

						

						* When using PHP as CGI

						* When you just become crazy because of "No input file 
						specified" appearing on the web page, while it never 
						appears directly in the shell

						

						Then I have a solution for you :

						

						1. Create a script for example called cgiwrapper.cgi

						2. Put inside :

						 #!/bin/sh -

						 export SCRIPT_FILENAME=/var/www/realpage.php

						 /usr/bin/php -f $SCRIPT_FILENAME

						3. Name your page realpage.php

						

						For example with thttpd the problem is that 
						SCRIPT_FILENAME is not defined, while PHP absolutely 
						requires it.

						My solution corrects that problem !

Flo
11-Feb-2005 05:03

On windows try ctrl-m or ctrl-z 
						to run code in interactive (-a) mode 

						(*nix ctrl-d)

ken.gregg at rwre dot com
09-Jan-2005 02:38

If you want to use named 
						command line parameters in your script, 

						the following code will parse command line parameters in 
						the form 

						of name=value and place them in the $_REQUEST super 
						global array.

						

						cli_test.php

						<?php

						

						echo 
						"argv[] = ";

						print_r($argv); 
						// just to see what was 
						passed in

						

						if ($argc
						> 
						0)

						{

						  for ($i=1;$i
						< 
						$argc;$i++)

						  {

						   parse_str(

Author:		John Lim
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Topic:		Some Thoughts on PHP
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