Passing Key/Value data to PHP on Command-Line using Powershell variable

Question

I have a PHP file that runs on Windows command line, using PowerShell. I can pass in an "associative array" to the file, like so:

php .\my_file.php --first="eke" --second="orie" --third="ubochi afor" --fourth="nkwo"

To inspect the arguments within my_file.php , one can use the following:

print_r($argv);
Array
(
    [0] => .\schedule_mail.php
    [1] => --first=eke
    [2] => --second=orie
    [3] => --third=ubochi afor
    [4] => --fourth=nkwo
)

print_r(getopt(null, ['first:', 'second:', 'third:', 'fourth:']));
Array
(
    [first] => eke
    [second] => orie
    [third] => ubochi afor
    [fourth] => nkwo
)

This all works well until I replace the passed in data with a variable like so:

$Var = '--first="eke" --second="orie" --third="ubochi afor" --fourth="nkwo"'
php .\my_file.php $Var

In this latter case, here is what I get instead:

print_r($argv);
Array
(
    [0] => .\schedule_mail.php
    [1] => --first=eke --second=orie --third=ubochi
    [2] => afor --fourth=nkwo
)


print_r(getopt(null, ['first:', 'second:', 'third:', 'fourth:']));
Array
(
    [first] => eke --second=orie --third=ubochi
)

How can I effectively pass this data to the PHP file?

Answer 1

The reason $Var = '--first="eke" --second="orie" --third="ubochi afor" --fourth="nkwo"' didn't work, was because you made $Var one big string.

Thisway what you actually parsed to the file was something like this:

php .\my_file.php '--first="eke" --second="orie" --third="ubochi afor" --fourth="nkwo"'

Powershell interprets this not as multiple parameters to the file, but as one.

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What you need to do instead, is make $Var an array:

$Var = @('--first="eke"', '--second="orie"', '--third="ubochi afor"', '--fourth="nkwo"')
php .\my_file.php $Var

This way Powershell interprets every entry of the array as one unique parameter to the file.

Answer 2

Might be this could help. You can check here -

http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.argv.php