PHP Command Line interface class. Provides friendly and flexible CLI argument parsing.
$args = CommandLine::parseArgs($_SERVER['argv']);
This command line option parser supports any combination of three types of options
[single character options (-a -b or -ab or -c -d=dog or -cd dog),
long options (--foo or --bar=baz or --bar baz)
and arguments (arg1 arg2)] and returns a simple array.
[pfisher ~]$ php test.php --foo --bar=baz --spam eggs
["foo"] => true
["bar"] => "baz"
["spam"] => "eggs"
[pfisher ~]$ php test.php -abc foo
["a"] => true
["b"] => true
["c"] => "foo"
[pfisher ~]$ php test.php arg1 arg2 arg3
[0] => "arg1"
[1] => "arg2"
[2] => "arg3"
[pfisher ~]$ php test.php plain-arg --foo --bar=baz --funny="spam=eggs" --also-funny=spam=eggs \
> 'plain arg 2' -abc -k=value "plain arg 3" --s="original" --s='overwrite' --s
[0] => "plain-arg"
["foo"] => true
["bar"] => "baz"
["funny"] => "spam=eggs"
["also-funny"]=> "spam=eggs"
[1] => "plain arg 2"
["a"] => true
["b"] => true
["c"] => true
["k"] => "value"
[2] => "plain arg 3"
["s"] => "overwrite"
Not supported: -cd=dog.
@author Patrick Fisher patrick@pwfisher.com
@since August 21, 2009
@see
- http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php
- comment #81042 function arguments($argv) by technorati at gmail dot com, 12-Feb-2008
- comment #78651 function getArgs($args) by B Crawford, 22-Oct-2007
Note: parseArgs.php contains a "minified" version of the same code, for your copypasta pleasure. For little scripts for which you want to have a nice interface.