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Hi everyone,

I’m having a script.php on IIS server and I want to call that script automatically every x minutes. The problem is that I need to pass arguments to the script like I would do in the browser (script.php?task=aaa). it seems that scheduled task ignores argument ?task=aaa…

How can I run this script passing it some “GET” arguments?

Thanks,
L

Answer 1

You can pass parameters into the file by invoking it like so:

C:\PHP5\php.exe -f "C:\PHP Scripts\script.php" -- -arg1 -arg2 -arg3

and then you can parse argv with this function:

function arguments($args ) {
    $ret = array(
        'exec'      => '',
        'options'   => array(),
        'flags'     => array(),
        'arguments' => array(),
    );

    $ret['exec'] = array_shift( $args );

    while (($arg = array_shift($args)) != NULL) {
        // Is it a option? (prefixed with --)
        if ( substr($arg, 0, 2) === '--' ) {
            $option = substr($arg, 2);

            // is it the syntax '--option=argument'?
            if (strpos($option,'=') !== FALSE)
                array_push( $ret['options'], explode('=', $option, 2) );
            else
                array_push( $ret['options'], $option );

            continue;
        }

        // Is it a flag or a serial of flags? (prefixed with -)
        if ( substr( $arg, 0, 1 ) === '-' ) {
            for ($i = 1; isset($arg[$i]) ; $i++)
                $ret['flags'][] = $arg[$i];

            continue;
        }

        // finally, it is not option, nor flag
        $ret['arguments'][] = $arg;
        continue;
    }
    return $ret;
}//function arguments

Source: http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php