Cron not passing params to PHP script

Question

I have a cron job set like

php /home/novinarb/public_html/index.php --uri=\"cron/24satahr\"

but the \'uri\' param doesn\'t get to the php

Answer 1

A more robust method would be to accept command-line arguments in your PHP script with getopt() or $argv and making it executable. An example with $argv called script.php:

#!/usr/bin/php

Make it executable:

chmod +x script.php

And execute:

./script.php "cron/24satahr"

Will output:

cron/24satahr