pass crontab a variable and read it from PHP?

Question

I have created a crontab rule:

* * * * * php /my/directory/file.php

I want to pass a variable to be used in the file.php from this crontab.

Answer 1

When you execute a PHP script from command line, you can access the variable count from $argc and the actual values in the array $argv. A simple example.

Consider test.php

Executing this using php test.php a b c:

4 arguments given:
Array
(
    [0] => test.php
    [1] => a
    [2] => b
    [3] => c
)