PHP.exe interpreter and sending variables

[Ramza Brown]

Question, I am testing php scripts through the console app(php.exe) how
can I send form variables to it? Or can I? Can I just fill in
variables into _POST['val'] for example.

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[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: PHP.exe interpreter and sending variables

*** Ramza Brown wrote/escribió (Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:04:21 -0400):[color=blue]
> Question, I am testing php scripts through the console app(php.exe) how
> can I send form variables to it? Or can I? Can I just fill in
> variables into _POST['val'] for example.[/color]

POST is a method of the HTTP protocol, protocol that is obviously not used
when executing a script though the command line. If your input comes from
forms, you should probably write an intermediate script that runs through a
web server and convert the input in something a command line tool can reach
(database, file, command-line arguments...).

Yes, $_POST is a writeable array but, where are you getting the values to
fill into it?

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[ZeldorBlat]

Re: PHP.exe interpreter and sending variables

Check out $argc[] and $argv[]:

http://www.php.net/reserved.variables

[Ramza Brown]

Re: PHP.exe interpreter and sending variables

ZeldorBlat wrote:[color=blue]
> Check out $argc[] and $argv[]:
>
> http://www.php.net/reserved.variables
>[/color]
Hmm, this looks interesting, can you translate that? For what I want.

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[ZeldorBlat]

Re: PHP.exe interpreter and sending variables

One option would be to pass each desired form variable as a key=value
pair, then have a method populate $_POST from $argv. So, if you had
three post variables called var1, var2, and var3, you would call your
script from the command line as follows:

php myscript.php var1=val1 var2=val2 var3=val3

Then, inside your script, do something like this:

for($i = 1; $i < $argc; $i++) { //the first one is the script name
$param = explode('=', $argv[$i]);
$_POST[$param[0]] = $params[1];
}

Another alternative would be to pass a single command line argument
containing something like a URL query string. So, in the above example
you would use the following on the command line:

php myscript.php var1=val1&var2= val2&var3=val3

Then, inside your script, try something like:

$params = array();
parse_str($argv[1], $params);
foreach($params as $key => $val)
$_POST[$key] = $val;

[Ramza Brown]

Re: PHP.exe interpreter and sending variables

ZeldorBlat wrote:[color=blue]
> One option would be to pass each desired form variable as a key=value
> pair, then have a method populate $_POST from $argv. So, if you had
> three post variables called var1, var2, and var3, you would call your
> script from the command line as follows:
>
> php myscript.php var1=val1 var2=val2 var3=val3
>
> Then, inside your script, do something like this:
>
> for($i = 1; $i < $argc; $i++) { //the first one is the script name
> $param = explode('=', $argv[$i]);
> $_POST[$param[0]] = $params[1];
> }
>
> Another alternative would be to pass a single command line argument
> containing something like a URL query string. So, in the above example
> you would use the following on the command line:
>
> php myscript.php var1=val1&var2= val2&var3=val3
>
> Then, inside your script, try something like:
>
> $params = array();
> parse_str($argv[1], $params);
> foreach($params as $key => $val)
> $_POST[$key] = $val;
>[/color]
Gracias, thanks.


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