note 49507 added to function.getopt

i didn't like the way getopt worked, exactly, so i wrote a new variant, that other people would possibly like to see. (works more like perl's function) it reads an array of options like: $opAr = array ("-a|--append","-l|--list","-i|--input:"); $op = bgetop($opAr); and parses the command line, returning an array like $op['cmdline'] = $param; ... it has a small bug that can easily be avoided ... haven't yet determined how to work around the particular case where the bug exists, but otherwise is very robust. it also accepts wildwards as the last option, or the output from another program like 'find' : ./getop.php find /etc -name *.conf populates the $op array with the filenames returned from find. it's pretty nifty. the source is at : http://higginsforpresident.net/projects/source/getopt-0.1.phps i didn't want to post it here until i fixed that one condition, but the function works nicely (as expected) if you don't use duplicate beginnings for different option array strings: $opAr = array("-f:","--foo"); bgetopt() sees --foo needs no 'next input', but -f exists in '--foo', so ./getop.php -f foobar set's f to 'true', which is the expected result of array("-f","--foo") or array("-f|--foo"), but not ("-f:","--foo"); enjoy. (my first submission here ... be kind.) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.getopt.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+49507 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49507&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49507&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49507&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49507&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49507&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+49507&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php