note 71587 modified in function.array-search by bobby

You can use array_search to simply parse a CLI program's input parameters such as: [user@server ~]$ ./someCLIprog.php --username user1 --password 123password --option1 whatever You can easily parse this information using the following code snippets: <?php // Get the username $userkey = array_search("--username", $argv); // Make sure both that the token was found and followed by another valid token, AKA not one that begins with a - if ($userkey && !empty($argv[$userkey+1]) && strcmp($argv[$userkey+1]{0}, '-')) { $username = $argv[$userkey+1]; } // If you want the token to be required add the following else statement else { exit("No username provided\n"); } // repeat for each optional parameter, ?> --was-- You can use array_search to simply parse a CLI program's input parameters such as: [user@server ~]$ ./someCLIprog.php --username user1 --password 123password --option1 whatever You can easily parse this information using the following code snippets: <?php // Get the username $userkey = array_search("--username", $argv); // Make sure both that the token was found and followed by another valid token, AKA not one that begins with a - if ($userkey && !empty($argv[$userkey+1]) && strcmp($argv[$userkey+1]{0} != '-')) { $username = $argv[$userkey+1]; } // If you want the token to be required add the following else statement else { exit("No username provided\n"); } // repeat for each optional parameter, ?> http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-search.php