Re: Command line PHP

On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:55 AM, larry@garfieldtech.com wrote: > Hi folks. I have a project coming up that will involve writing a non-trivial command line PHP > application. Most of it will be nice and abstracted and standalone and all of that jazz, but it > will need to do command line interation. I'm not sure yet if it will be interactive or if I > just need to parse lots of command line switches. > > Has anyone used a CLI-handling library they like? I recall briefly using the PEAR CLI library > many many years ago and disliking it because it was only barely a step above the raw PHP-CLI SAPI, > and still required lots of if-else branching in my code. I don't know if there's anything > better since then, however. I prefer clean OO to procedural, but can work with procedural if needs > be. The fewer dependencies it has the better as well. > > Any recommendations? > > (Open source, GPLv2-compatible required.) > > --Larry Garfield Larry- Why are you writing a command line application in PHP? I would think that is starting off on a very wrong foot. Can you explain the requirements / use cases a bit more? Regards, -Josh ____________________________________ Joshua Kehn | Josh.Kehn@gmail.com http://joshuakehn.com