Send request parameters when calling a PHP script via command line

Question

When you run a PHP script through a browser it looks something like

http://somewebsite.com/yourscript?param1=val1&param2=val2.

I am trying to achieve the same thing via command line without having to rewrite the script to accept argv instead of $_REQUEST. Is there a way to do something like this:

php yourscript.php?param1=val1&param2=val2 

such that the parameters you send show up in the $_REQUEST variable?

Answer 1

I can't take credit for this but I adopted this in my bootstrap file:

// Concatenate and parse string into $_REQUEST
if (php_sapi_name() === 'cli') {
    parse_str(implode('&', array_slice($argv, 1)), $_REQUEST);
}

Upon executing a PHP file from the command line:

php yourscript.php param1=val1 param2=val2

The above will insert the keys and values into $_REQUEST for later retrieval.

Answer 2

In case you don't want to modify running script, you can specify parameters using in -B parameter to specify code to run before the input file. But in this case you must also add -F tag to specify your input file:

php -B "\$_REQUEST = array('param1' => 'val1', 'param2' => 'val2');" -F yourscript.php