Helper functions for working in a command-line environment.
Class declared in SYSPATH/classes/cli.php on line 3.
Returns one or more command-line options. Options are specified using standard CLI syntax:
php index.php --username=john.smith --password=secret --var="some value with spaces"
// Get the values of "username" and "password"
$auth = CLI::options('username', 'password');
string
$options
required - ,... option namearraypublic static function options($options)
{
// Get all of the requested options
$options = func_get_args();
// Found option values
$values = array();
// Skip the first option, it is always the file executed
for ($i = 1; $i < $_SERVER['argc']; $i++)
{
if ( ! isset($_SERVER['argv'][$i]))
{
// No more args left
break;
}
// Get the option
$opt = $_SERVER['argv'][$i];
if (substr($opt, 0, 2) !== '--')
{
// This is not an option argument
continue;
}
// Remove the "--" prefix
$opt = substr($opt, 2);
if (strpos($opt, '='))
{
// Separate the name and value
list ($opt, $value) = explode('=', $opt, 2);
}
else
{
$value = NULL;
}
if (in_array($opt, $options))
{
// Set the given value
$values[$opt] = $value;
}
}
return $values;
}