note 51836 deleted from features.commandline by bjori

Note Submitter: Nicole at AeonTrek dot com ---- This one took me all morning to finally figure out. My problem was that I needed to run a PHP script via command line in the background. I have my script run automatically every 15 seconds. I am running Apache 2 on Windows XP Pro with PHP 4.3.11. I am also connecting to a MySQL database. I was calling my script like this: c:\php\cli\php.exe d:\webserver\mysite\script.php?foo=bar And I was accessing my GET parameters via $_GET. Well, calling it this way was giving me a "Input file not specified" error message. I could not understand why. I was able to run another script just fine like this: c:\php\cli\php.exe d:\webserver\script.php As it turns out, attempting to pass parameters through the GET method renders the file name invalid to php.exe. So, to fix my problem, I realized I need to call my script and parameters like this: c:\php\cli\php.exe d:\webserver\mysite\script.php bar And in my script, I can see bar like this: $argv[1] // grab [1] because [0] holds the script name That solved my problem! I HOPE this helps someone else in the future! Enjoy! Nicole AeonTrek.com