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

I was facing the same problem but was able to fix it after reading the manual entry for php.

Initially I had something set like:

/usr/bin/php -f /path/to/php/script.php -c 1426 >> /tmp/script.php.log 2>&1

I was able to fix it by changing the line to:

/usr/bin/php -f /path/to/php/script.php -- -c 1426 >> /tmp/script.php.log 2>&1

As per the manual entry the syntax is:

php [options] [ -f ] file [[--] args...]

Also,

 args...        Arguments passed to script. Use '--' args when first argument starts with '-' or script is read from stdin

Going by that, my cron command becomes:

/usr/bin/php -f /path/to/php/script.php -- -c 1426 >> /tmp/script.php.log 2>&1

and it works!