pass crontab a variable and read it from PHP?

Question

I have created a crontab rule:

* * * * * php /my/directory/file.php

I want to pass a variable to be used in the file.php from this crontab.

Answer 1

May I add to the $argv answers that for more sophisticated command-line parameters handling you might want to use getopt() : http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.getopt.php