Call a PHP function from the command line

Question

I have a file called address.php with a few functions in it. I want to call a specific function in that file from the command line. How?

The name of the function is

Answer 1

You can make your file "somefile.php" organized as follows:

function func1(){....}
function func2(){....}
function func3(){....}
....
foreach ($argv AS $arg){
    function_exists($arg) AND call_user_func($arg);
}

Then from the command line or a Linux cronjob, you run the following command:

php /path/to/somefile.php arg1 arg2 arg3 ...