PHP Command Line Arguments and Options

Question

I am writing a small command line application in php.

What is the correct way to handle command line arguments and options?

There seems to be the argv arra

Answer 1

You can retrieve the "raw" arguments using $argv. See also: http://www.php.net/manual/de/reserved.variables.argv.php

Example: php file.php a b c

$argv will contain "file.php", "a", "b" and "c".

Use getopts to get the parameters "parsed", PHP will do the dirty job for you. So it's probably the best way to go in your case as you want to pass the parameters with --options. Have a close look at http://www.php.net/manual/de/function.getopt.php It describes the function well.