Calling php scripts inside ruby code

Question

I want to call a php scripts from my ruby code. From ruby it needs to pass the arguments to php as command line arguments. But for argument with spaces it is treating it as command.

For example:

result = 'php sample.php "#{name}" "#{location}"'

It is returning

sh: line 1: Blahh Blahh: command not found
sh: line 2: Some more Blahh: command not found

Can anyone tell how to pass ruby string as argument??

Answer 1

You can use the backticks syntax to make system calls.

But the issue is really that you need to pass the -f option to PHP to tell PHP to execute a file instead of trying to run the command line arguments.

test.rb:

path = File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/'
args = ['arg1', 'arg2']
puts `php -f #{ path + 'sample.php'} { args.join(' ') }`

sample.php

<?php 
if (isset($argv)){
 print_r($argv);
}

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => ./sample.php
    [1] => arg1
    [2] => arg2
)

Edit

You can also use the StdLib component Shellwords to escape and quote the arguments for you:

require 'shellwords'
path = File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/'
args = ['arg1', 'arg2 asdas']
puts `php -e #{ path + 'test.php'} #{ Shellwords.join(args) }`

Output

Array
(
    [0] => ./test.php
    [1] => arg1
    [2] => arg2 asdas
)