Re: Command line PHP

On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Joshua Kehn wrote: > 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? > I agree. Not saying that it isn't doable, because it certainly is, but there may be other languages that are available and easier to implement a CLI app, such as Python, or some other QnD scripting language.