Set $_SERVER variable when calling PHP from command line?

Question

Is it possible to pass a $_SERVER variable to a PHP script via the command line?

Specifically I am trying to set the $_SERVER['recipient'] manually so I can test email piping without setting up a mail server.

Answer 1

On *nix:

$ recipient="[email protected]" php script.php  <?php  print_r($_SERVER); 

Test:

$ recipient="[email protected]" php script.php | grep recipient  [recipient] => [email protected] 

Or, you can export it or setenv (depending on your OS), like

$ export recipient="[email protected]" $ setenv recipient="[email protected]" 

Answer 2

The answer by @sberry is correct.

...but because I came to this page looking for setting default values for the $_SERVER array, when running PHP from command line, here is my own answer. Hope it might help somebody.

empty( $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] ) && $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = 'localhost'; empty( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) && $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = '/'; empty( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ) && $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] = __DIR__; print_r( $_SERVER );