PHP: How to get internal arguments?

Question

Given the command:

/usr/bin/php -c /path/to/custom/php.ini /path/to/script.php

I'd like to get the internal options:

-c /path/to/custom/php.ini

Things I've tried that do not work:

• $argv contains ['/path/to/script.php']
• getopt('c') contains []
• $_ENV does not contain it
• $_SERVER does not contain it

I've also looked for a PHP_* constant (such as PHP_BINARY) but cannot find one for these arguments.

Is there any way to get these arguments? Note that I am not trying to obtain the loaded ini file but any arguments that might be present here.

Answer 1

PHP has no internal way of doing this, so you are going to have to rely on certain system information and permissions.

$pid = getmypid();
$ps = `ps aux | grep $pid`;
$command = substr($ps, strpos($ps, '/usr/bin/php'));
$args = explode(' ', $command); //not pretty, should probably use preg