Re: Command line PHP

On Jan 7, 2011, at 1:41 PM, larry@garfieldtech.com wrote: > "Application" is perhaps a misnomer. I'm not looking at rewriting Emacs or > anything. Just some batch processing that would get run as: > > php myscript.php --config=foo.xml --setting-1=stuff > > And then it will run off and move a few million records around between different data stores, a > process that will probably take an hour or so. (The backend will be cycling through a queue > server.) I just need something to make handling of the args and environment easier, because I find > the native SAPI calls to be ugly/cumbersome. > > I'm sure it could be written in Perl or Python or Java. But I know extremely little Perl, > no Python, and my Java is quite rusty, plus there are mature PHP libraries that talk to the 3rd > party systems I'm tying together. My PHP-fu is much stronger than my Perl, Python, and Java > combined. > > <OT> > Yeah, PHP was "intended" as a template language only; that fell by the wayside a > decade ago or more when people started building real web apps in it, which are a lot more than > templates. That boat has long since sailed and is irrelevant to this discussion. > </OT> > > --Larry Garfield In that case I can't offer any good CLI libs, but it sounds like a few others here could offer some. Regards, -Josh ____________________________________ Joshua Kehn | Josh.Kehn@gmail.com http://joshuakehn.com