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

I need to have the parameter 'show' be passed through and

php -q htdocs/file.php?show=show_name

doesn't work

If someone could spell out to me what command to execute to get the php file to execute with set parameters, it would be much appreciated. If not, try to lead me the right direction.

Solution 1

test.php:

<?php
print_r($argv);
?>

Shell:

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

Solution 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.

Solution 3

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/

Solution 4

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.

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Comments

[Patrick Lorio]

when I enter that command I get an error for the "FOO". I'm using xampp's shell command on Windows, does that change anything?

[Patrick Lorio]

Ok, so I cannot receive the parameters via $_GET in php but through $argv, thanks. It took me a while to figure that out.

[troelskn]

It probably won't work on Windows, but it'll work fine on most unix type shells.

[Patrick Lorio]

I got it to work, I was expecting it to be received by PHP's $_GET[] function. It took me a while to realize that $arvg held all the parameters. Thanks.

[Gixty]

Is there any difference between using wget and php commands when running jobs with exec regarding security or performace?

[FlameStorm]

I sure security is the same. Performance - of course wget will be more slow but much handy as of said upper. With wget the request goes all hidden stages or request handling like apache/nginx/lighttpd caches, rewrites and so on. When in direct call of php you will blame so complex workaround,- i.e. it's appliable not in all cases. Anyway, I think you just must take your current case, your brain, benchmarking tool and just shuffle it a good! ;)