Passing GET/POST variables to php via command line?

PHP
1

How does one pass GET/POST variables via command line? For instance setting $getv=100 with a command line execution of test.php.

2

The command line doesn’t have any concept of $_GET or $_POST, because these are purely http constructs

Instead, values can be passed as command line arguments. I tend to use a format like:

php -f myScript.php -i=1 -j="value2"

Then my script will contain somethin like:


if ($_SERVER['argc'] > 1) {
	for ($commandLineIndex=1; $commandLineIndex < $_SERVER['argc']; $commandLineIndex++) {
		$commandLineArgument = explode('=', $_SERVER['argv'][$commandLineIndex]);
		$commandLineArgumentKey = array_shift($commandLineArgument);
		$commandLineArgumentValue = implode('=', $commandLineArgument);

		switch($commandLineArgumentKey) {
			case '-i' :
					if ((is_null($commandLineArgumentValue)) || (trim($commandLineArgumentValue) == '')) {
						errorTerminate('A value must be specified for : '.$_SERVER['argv'][$commandLineIndex].PHP_EOL);
					}
					$i = $commandLineArgumentValue;
					break;
			case '-j' :
					if ((is_null($commandLineArgumentValue)) || (trim($commandLineArgumentValue) == '')) {
						errorTerminate('A value must be specified for : '.$_SERVER['argv'][$commandLineIndex].PHP_EOL);
					}
					$j = $commandLineArgumentValue;
					break;
			default :
					errorTerminate('Unknown argument : '.$_SERVER['argv'][$commandLineIndex].NEWLINE.'Use -h or --help for help');
					break;
		}
	}
}
3

Thank you. So there’s no workaround to pass REQUEST variables via command line? Because the script this is for is a very complex pre-written script, which there’s no chance of me being able to recode to be used with the traditional CLI.

4

You will have to manually take the command line arguments and inject them into _REQUEST, _GET, or _POST. Or just rewrite the script anyways…

5

From the command line (on Linux) you can run


wget http://domain.path/to/script.php

unfortunately with this method your cli page will be acessible from the Internet same as any other page, the good thing is you can send $_REQUEST variables.

6

I wonder where’s the problem at all
Web-server usually provides POST/GET data to the script, so, you have no worry about it.
How do you call yor script exactly? What aplication calls it?

7

There is no web server involved in this at all.
The OP is calling the script from the command line

8

If there is no web server, there is no GET/POST.
What is OP?
In which form this OP has his POST data? a text file? a database record?

9 
$ setenv GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
$ setenv REQUEST_METHOD GET
$ setenv QUERY_STRING v=100
$ setenv PATH_TRANSLATED "file.php"
$ /path/to/php-cgi file.php

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