PHP/CLI
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< PHP
Although PHP is most commonly used to write web applications, it can also be used for scripts that run from a command line interface (CLI). The CLI environment is a little different than the web environment, and PHP's current documentation doesn't make it easy to locate the relevant pieces.
Functionality
Predefined variables:
$argccontains the number of arguments passed to the current script$argv[]contains an array of all the arguments passed to the script$argv[0]is always the name that was used to run the script.
Other:
getopt()parses individual arguments in a standard waycli_get_process_title()cli_set_process_title()glob()is the interface to the system's file-globbing function
