Comand Line Variables (Max Length)?

[kardon33]

Hi all,

So I just wanted to see if anyone knew what the maximum length for a command line variable? I want to deal with 640,000 bytes, is this fine? Does anyone what that does to php speed?

[pbmods]

Heya, Kardon.

What are you trying to accomplish? Perhaps there's an easier way to work with all that data.

[kardon33]

Well I wrote this program in C that checks these lighting nodes with arp request and I need to get the data (Ip:status, for each node) back to my database which is sqlite. I would of just had C write to the database but I tried for hours and just couldn't get that to work.

I didn't originally I was going to be dealing with that much data I thought far less but demands need to be met.

I also wanted to limit the number of calls to the php script so thats why I am passing a string of all the nodes and there status.

[pbmods]

The alternative would be to save the data to a text file and send your PHP script the path to that file. The PHP script can the open the file and read the values that way.

[kardon33]

Thanks for the response,

That idea would work great, but I went with a different approach. I decided to limit my calls to php every 1000 nodes.