getopt

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yarco dot w at gmail dot com
25-Oct-2006 10:08


You cant use this function twice or more.



For example:

<?php

print_r(getopt('a:b:c:'));

print_r(getopt('d:e:f:'));

?>



You would be confused by the result.

[yarco@localhost ~]$ php test3.php -a love -b love -d love

Array

(

    [a] => love

    [b] => love

)

Array

(

    [e] => love

    [d] => love

)

fertugrul [ at ] yahoo [dot] com
06-Jun-2006 05:55


I have written another function to parse command line variables. The source can be found at http://afe.cc/getopt.txt and the include file generic.h is at http://afe.cc/generic.h .



What you need to do is to put required variables to an array in a specific order and call parse_args. All variables that must be read from command line are set automatically. I've tried to imitate the output of GNU's getopt library.



Hope it helps.

AFE

joey at alegria dot co dot jp
01-May-2006 12:57


There are 2 simpler (and much faster) methods for getting good getopt() operation without creating your own handler.



1. Use the Console_Getopt PEAR class (should be standard in most PHP installations) which lets you specify both short and long form options as well as whether or not arguments supplied to an option are themselves 'optional'. Very simple to use and requires very little code to operate compaired to writing own handler.



2. If you cannot load external PEAR objects, use your shell's getopt() functions (which in BASHs case work very well) to process options and have your shell script then call your PHP script with a rigid argument structure that is very easy for PHP to digest such as: 

% myfile.php -a TRUE -b FALSE -c ARGUMENT ... 

If the initial arguments are invalid you can have the shell script return an error without calling the PHP script. Sounds convoluted but is a very simple solution and in fact PHP's own % pear command uses this method. /usr/bin/pear is a shell script that does some simle checking before calling pearcmd.php and repassing the arguments on to it.



The second method is by far the best for portability because it allows a single shell script to check a few things like your PHP version and respond acordingly e.g. does it call your PHP4 or PHP5 compatible script? Also, because getopt() is not available on Windows, The second solution allows you to do Windows specific testing as a BAT file (as oposed to BASH, ZSH or Korn on UNIX).

andrew dot waite at databanx dot net
09-Dec-2005 08:59


After having problems with the getopt() function I developed this to handle parameters in a smilar way to 'nix shell script. Hope this is of some us to someone.



#!/usr/bin/php4

<?php

#

#    Purpose:    Parse parameters passed to script in way comaparable to shell script

#    Usage:        include_once("/some/path/getArgs.php"); OR

#            require_once("/some/path/getArgs.php"); depending on context of parent script

#    Post:        Generate an associative array $params

#

#    Author:        A.Waite

#    Date:        09/12/05

#    Version:    V1.0



    $i = 1;

    $params = array();

    for ($i=1; $i < $argc; $i++){



        if ( isParam($argv[$i]) ){

            

            if (strlen($argv[$i]) == 1){

                //do nothing

                // single -



            }elseif ( strlen($argv[$i]) == 2){

                //seperated (ie -H www.google.com)  or no value parameter (ie. -h)

                $paramName = $argv[$i];

                $paramVal = ( !isParam( $argv[ $i + 1 ] ) ) ? $argv[$i + 1] : null;



            }elseif ( strlen($argv[$i]) > 2){

                //joined parameters ie -Hwww.google.com

                $paramName = substr($argv[$i],0,2);

                $paramVal = substr($argv[$i],2);

            }



            $params[ $paramName ] = $paramVal;



        }



    }



    #determines whether string is a parameter

    function isParam($string){

        return ($string{0} == "-") ? 1: 0;

    }

?>

nutbar at innocent dot com
07-Sep-2005 02:40


The code snippet that daevid at daevid dot com gives works, however is not a perfect getopt replacement since you cannot use the "default" switch statement.



Usage: prog [OPTIONS] <req'd argument> <req'd argument>



The switch() call will eventually run on those 2 required arguments.  If you use the "default" statement, it will catch the argument and chances are you use the default statement as your --help trap, thus it will exit the script (if that's what you do).



So, if you use that example below, you may want to check each "argv" variable, and if it doesn't match --*, then you may want to skip past it and store it in another array for retrieval as a required argument if your script uses those.



I will be writing a getopt class that will do everything properly possibly, if/when I do, I'll post it up here so you can all use it rather than the built in getopt code (seems a bit limiting compared to the actual C library getopt_long()).

daevid at daevid dot com
01-Jun-2005 04:11


This is how I parse command line options:



<?php

$OPTION['debug'] = false;

$OPTION['test'] = false;

$OPTION['force'] = "";



//loop through our arguments and see what the user selected

   for ($i = 1; $i < $_SERVER["argc"]; $i++)

   {

       switch($_SERVER["argv"][$i])

       {

           case "-v":

           case "--version":

            echo  $_SERVER['argv'][0]." v07.19.04 06:10 PM\n";

            exit;

               break;

        

           case "--debug":

               $OPTION['debug'] = true;

               break;

        

           case "--force":

               $OPTION['force'] = " --force";

               break;

        

           case "--db":

           case "--database":

           case "--id":

            if ( is_numeric($_SERVER['argv'][$i+1]) )

                $OPTION['CompanyID'] = intval($_SERVER['argv'][++$i]);

            else //it must be a database name

                $OPTION['CompanyDB'] = $_SERVER['argv'][++$i];

               break;



           case "--base":

           case "--basedir":

           case "--dir":

               $OPTION['basedir'] = $_SERVER["argv"][++$i];

               break;

        

           case "--test":

               $OPTION['test'] = true;

               break;

        

           case "-?":

           case "-h":

           case "--help":

?>

This will print any .txt files, process any .sql files and 

execute any .php files found starting from the base directory

'<?=$OPTION['basedir']?>' in alphabetical order.



 Usage: <?php echo $_SERVER['argv'][0]; ?> <option>



 --help, -help, -h, or -?     to get this help.

 --version                    to return the version of this file.

 --debug                    to turn on output debugging.

 --test                        to fake the SQL and PHP commands.

 --force                    to ignore SQL errors and keep on going.

 --db [CompanyDB]            to apply to only this [CompanyDB].

 --id [CompanyID]            to apply to only this [CompanyID].

 --basedir [directory]        to change base directory from <?=$OPTION['basedir']?>.

 Omitting the CompanyID or CompanyDB will cause ALL Company DB's to be updated.



 There are global files and per-company files. Global files are applied to global

 databases (see list below). Their filename contains a tag that reflects the database

 to apply them against. Per-company files are applied against databases. Their

 filename contains a tag that reads 'COMPANY'. Files should be in <?=$OPTION['basedir']?>;

 Global files that are understood:

<?=$OPTION['basedir']?> 

 <?php foreach ($GLOBAL_SQL_FILES as $sqlFile) echo $sqlFile."   "; ?>



<?php

               exit;

               break;

       }

   } //parse arguments



//    print_r($OPTION);

?>

dante at wiw dot org
31-Jan-2005 12:44


i didn't like the way getopt worked, exactly, so i wrote a new variant, that other people would possibly like to see. (works more like perl's function)



it reads an array of options like:



$opAr = array ("-a|--append","-l|--list","-i|--input:"); 



$op = bgetop($opAr); 



and parses the command line, returning an array like



$op['cmdline'] = $param;  ...



it has a small bug that can easily be avoided ... haven't yet determined how to work around the particular case where the bug exists, but otherwise is very robust. 



it also accepts wildwards as the last option, or the output from another program like 'find' :



./getop.php `find /etc -name *.conf` 



populates the $op array with the filenames returned from find.  it's pretty nifty. 



the source is at : http://higginsforpresident.net/projects/source/getopt-0.1.phps



i didn't want to post it here until i fixed that one condition, but the function works nicely (as expected) if you don't use duplicate beginnings for different option array strings:



$opAr = array("-f:","--foo");



bgetopt() sees --foo needs no 'next input', but -f exists in '--foo', so ./getop.php -f foobar set's f to 'true', which is the 

expected result of array("-f","--foo") or array("-f|--foo"), but not ("-f:","--foo"); 



enjoy.  (my first submission here ... be kind.)

grange
15-Oct-2004 10:50


getopt() will return an empty array if you call it more than once.

vedanta at maintec dot com
12-May-2004 05:36


A sample use  :



#!/usr/bin/php

<?php

$opt = getopt("s:f:r:u:");

$help="***Error :url_mailer.php -s <subject> -f <sender_email> -r <receipient_email> -u <url_to_mail>";

if($opt[s]=='' || $opt[r]=='' || $opt[u]=='' || $opt[f]=='' ){ echo "$help\n";exit(); } 



# prepare the mail message from the url

$url=trim($opt[u]);

$message=file_get_contents($url);



# prepare mail headers

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 

$headers.= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 

$headers.= "From: $opt[f] \r\n"; 



# send the mail

mail($opt[r],$opt[s],$message,$headers);

?>

chris at tiny dot net
24-Apr-2004 10:17


"phpnotes at kipu dot co dot uk" and "tim at digicol dot de" are both wrong or misleading.  Sean was correct.  Quoted space-containing strings on the command line are one argument.  It has to do with how the shell handles the command line, more than PHP.  PHP's getopt() is modeled on and probably built upon the Unix/POSIX/C library getopt(3) which treats strings as strings, and does not break them apart on white space.



Here's proof:



$ cat opt.php

#! /usr/local/bin/php

<?php

$options = getopt("f:");

print_r($options);

?>

$ opt.php -f a b c

Array

(

    [f] => a

)

$ opt.php -f 'a b c'

Array

(

    [f] => a b c

)

$ opt.php -f "a b c"

Array

(

    [f] => a b c

)

$ opt.php -f a\ b\ c

Array

(

    [f] => a b c

)

$

klewan at chello dot at
20-Dec-2003 12:00


For all buddies outside who dont get getopt to work :)

here is a php variant with just standard function calls



<?

//Set Defaults

$options["a"]="valA";

$options["b"]="valB";



parseArgs($argv,&$options);



//options will be $options["FLAG"] (if not argument is given like -h the $options["h"] will be set to bolean true



if($options["h"] == true) {

        print_usage();

        exit(1);

}

var_dump($options);



function parseArgs($a = array(), $r) {

$f=NULL;

        for($x = 0; $x < count($a); $x++) {



                if($a[$x]{0} == "-") {

                        $f=$a[$x];

                        $r[substr($f,1,strlen($f))]=true;

                }

                if ($f != NULL) {

                        if (($a[$x+1] != NULL) && ($a[$x+1] != "") && ($a[$x+1] != "") && ($a[$x+1]{0} != "-")) {

                                $r[substr($f,1,strlen($f))]=$a[$x+1];

                        } else {

                            $f=$a[x+1];

                        }

                }

        }

}



function print_usage() {

        echo "-a bla bla\n";

        echo "-b bla bla\n";

        echo "-h display this help\n";



}

?>

carl at thep dot lu dot se dot nospam
17-Jul-2003 10:07


Unlike POSIX.2 getopt(), this function does not modify argv, so it's

only useful if you have no non-option arguments. More often than

not, you're probably better off examining $argv yourself.

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