Getting script pathname in a script run from the command line

[James Pittman]

Hi,

I have a PHP script running in a Cron job in Unix, using the "php"
command-line command executable. How do I get the path to the script,
from within the script? I've tried all the $_SERVER[] variables to no
avail.

Jamie

[Ken Robinson]

Re: Getting script pathname in a script run from the command line


James Pittman wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have a PHP script running in a Cron job in Unix, using the "php"
> command-line command executable. How do I get the path to the[/color]
script,[color=blue]
> from within the script? I've tried all the $_SERVER[] variables to[/color]
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> avail.[/color]

Have you tried $argv[0]

Ken

[Micha³ Wo¼niak]

Re: Getting script pathname in a script run from the command line

James Pittman napisa³:
[color=blue]
> Hi,[/color]

Hello
[color=blue]
> I have a PHP script running in a Cron job in Unix, using the "php"
> command-line command executable. How do I get the path to the script,
> from within the script?[/color]

Do you mean the filename of the script, like
"/foo/bar/whatever/script.php"?
Then you should use the __FILE__ superconstant. It holds the filename of
the currently executing script.
BUT that means, that if you have:

# in test_script.php :
<?php
echo 'First echo: ' . __FILE__ . '<BR>';
?>

# in host_script.php :
<?php
include ('test_script.p hp');
echo 'Second echo: ' . __FILE__;
?>

you will get:
First echo: (...)/test_script.php <BR>
Second echo: (...)/host_script.php

Chech the www.php.net page for more info on __FILE__ constant, you will
get a lot of useful hints there. AFAIR they have something in the "See
also:" section, that will give you always the "host_script.ph p".
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> I've tried all the $_SERVER[] variables to no
> avail.[/color]

Nope, it won't work. These are only set in a webserver enviroment; forget
about them in a command-line parser.

[color=blue]
> Jamie[/color]

HTH
Mike