Re: Command line PHP

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:55 AM, larry@garfieldtech.com <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 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > If all you want is a way to handle command line arguments, I built a library to do that a few years ago. I got sick of needing to switch languages to write a quick command-line script, and I hated the PEAR CLI tools. I haven't really looked at it since, and since it was just about the first thing I wrote that was object oriented I suspect it's got some problems, but you're welcome to give it a try. http://people.chem.umass.edu/amckenzie/code/php/php_cli_io/ It handles flags both with and without short forms, and flags with either zero, one or two arguments. The demo file in the package has the docs written into it -- read through it to see how the library works. If anyone tries it, let me know what you think, and what I've done wrong. It does everything I need, but I don't think anyone else has ever used it. -Alex