Shell run/execute php script with parameters

Question

I need to execute a php file with parameters through shell.

here is how I would run the php file:

php -q htdocs/file.php

Answer 1

In addition to the other answers (Which are quite correct), you can also pass arguments as environment parameters, like this:

FOO=42 BAR=quux php test.php

They will then be available in the superglobal $_ENV.

Answer 2

If you have webserver (not only just php interpreter installed, but LAMP/LNMP/etc) - just try this

wget -O - -q -t 1 "http://mysite.com/file.php?show=show_name" >/dev/null 2>&1

where:

• « -O - » — (Letter "O", not zero!) redirect "downloaded html" to stdout
• « >/dev/null 2>&1 » — redirect stdout & stderr output to nowhere
• « -q » — quiet wget run
• « -t 1 » — just 1 try to connect (not like default 20)

In PHP's "exec" it'll be smth like this:

function exec_local_url($url) {
  exec('/usr/bin/wget -O - -q -t 1 "http://'. $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] .'/'
    . addslashes($url) . '" >/dev/null 2>&1'
  );
}

// ...

exec_local_url("file.php?show=show_name");
exec_local_url("myframework/seo-readable/show/show_name");

So, you don't need to change your scripts to handle argc/argv, and may use $_GET as usually do.

If you want jobs runned in background - see for ex. Unix/Windows, Setup background process? from php code

I use approach with wget in my cron jobs; hope it helps.

Answer 3

If you are using it from a PHP file then you can use popen() and do something like this:

$part = $show_name; //or whatever you want with spaces

$handle = popen("php -q nah.php -p=". escapeshellarg($part) . " 2>&1", "r");

This uses the escapeshellarg() function in order to wrap the $part variable in quotes (and escape any quotes inside it), so that it can be used as a shell argument safely.

Answer 4

test.php:

<?php
print_r($argv);
?>

Shell:

$ php -q test.php foo bar
Array
(
    [0] => test.php
    [1] => foo
    [2] => bar
)

Answer 5

You need to read command line parameters from $argc and $argv.

Using a question mark is something you do in a URL and has nothing to do with executing PHP from a command line.

See also: http://www.sitepoint.com/php-command-line-1/