Shell run/execute php script with parameters

Question

I need to execute a php file with parameters through shell.

here is how I would run the php file:

php -q htdocs/file.php

I need to have the parameter 'show' be passed through and

php -q htdocs/file.php?show=show_name

doesn't work

If someone could spell out to me what command to execute to get the php file to execute with set parameters, it would be much appreciated. If not, try to lead me the right direction.

Answer 1

test.php:

<?php print_r($argv); ?> 

Shell:

$ php -q test.php foo bar Array (     [0] => test.php     [1] => foo     [2] => bar ) 

Answer 2

If you have webserver (not only just php interpreter installed, but LAMP/LNMP/etc) - just try this

wget -O - -q -t 1 "http://mysite.com/file.php?show=show_name" >/dev/null 2>&1 

where:

• « -O - » — (Letter "O", not zero!) redirect "downloaded html" to stdout
• « >/dev/null 2>&1 » — redirect stdout & stderr output to nowhere
• « -q » — quiet wget run
• « -t 1 » — just 1 try to connect (not like default 20)

In PHP's "exec" it'll be smth like this:

function exec_local_url($url) {   exec('/usr/bin/wget -O - -q -t 1 "http://'. $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] .'/'     . addslashes($url) . '" >/dev/null 2>&1'   ); }  // ...  exec_local_url("file.php?show=show_name"); exec_local_url("myframework/seo-readable/show/show_name"); 

So, you don't need to change your scripts to handle argc/argv, and may use $_GET as usually do.

If you want jobs runned in background - see for ex. Unix/Windows, Setup background process? from php code

I use approach with wget in my cron jobs; hope it helps.