Re: Re: calling php functions as library or cmd line

Cere Davis wrote:

Geeze, That was obnoxious.

you have to admit (well no you don't actually!) tho, it was damn tempting to just answer yes :-) anyway...

Luckily google helped me out eventually: if (basename($argv[0]) == basename(__FILE__)) {

...so that bit of code allows you to differentiate between CLI and CGI/webmodule, I'm interested where you took it from there. care to extrapolate? (e.g. did you setup some kind of generic magic that converts cmdline args to, for instance GET/POST vars that you app/components normally relies on? interested, Jochem o f f t o p i c: you're familiar with Ruby (cool name that)? what do you use it for? just curious.

Robert Cummings wrote:

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 09:46, Cere Davis wrote:

Does anyone know how to write php libraries in a modular way so that you can both test the libraries/functions on the command line with arguments and/or use the php library as a part of your web code with 'require_once()' syntax? Sort of like how Python or Ruby works?

Yes. Cheers, Rob.