Is it possible to pass an array as a command line argument to a PHP script?

Question

I\'m maintaining a PHP library that is responsible for fetching and storing incoming data (POST, GET, command line arguments, etc). I\'ve just fixed a bug that would not all

Answer 1

Directly not, all arguments passed in command line are strings, but you can use query string as one argument to pass all variables with their names:

php myscript.php a[]=1&a[]=2.2&a[b]=c



/*
array(3) {
  [0]=> string(1) "1"
  [1]=> string(3) "2.2"
  ["b"]=>string(1) "c"
}
*/