getting commandline ?

Hi I want to write a small application that will change something in databases on various locations. I can do this in Perl, but being used to the grace and simpleness of doing DB's with PHP, DB's with Perl became a real super drag :(((( So what i would like to know is the following. I know you can make a php executable and let it function as a script. (by adding the correct shebang) But how can i make commandline parameters visible in the php script ? lets say we have this : $ /usr/bin/changeinfo.php -database=test -table=testtable -row=changethis -dat a=replaceforthis. How can i get these parameters in the script so i can work with them ? Thanks -- - NoSpeed ------------------------------------------------------ - Carpe Noctem "The stickers on the side of the box said "Supported Platforms: Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 or better", so clearly Linux was a supported platform."