How to call a PHP function from CLI?

Question

Let's say I have a private function addUser() in function.php that takes $username as an input variable and does some stuff:

function addUser($username) {

//do some stuff

}

Now I want to call this function and pass the value $username, if possible with PHP CLI. I guess that won't work from outside function.php since it's private, but how could I do this then?

I don't get the point with "_won't work from outside since it's private_". Can you explain what you mean? Basically the visibility of your class methods or functions has nothing to do with the context php is running in. — matthias, Oct 10 '12 at 08:18

Prasanth · Answer 1 · 2012-10-10T08:18:14.460

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php -r 'include("/absolute/path/to/function.php"); addUser("some user");'

This should work. Because you are basically executing all that code in between 's. And in that you can include function.php and, should appropriately call addUser().

see phpdoc.

edited Oct 10 '12 at 08:18

answered Oct 10 '12 at 08:12

Prasanth

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 08:10

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You get your command line argumenst passed in a argv array:

function addUser($username) {

//do some stuff

}

addUser( $argv[1] );

answered Oct 10 '12 at 08:10

JvdBerg

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Why -1 ? SO should make it mandatory to write a comment when -1. – Riz Oct 10 '12 at 08:11
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@JvdBerg only `argv` -> `$argv` – Havelock Oct 10 '12 at 08:13
@JvdBerg There are only a couple of recent downvotes on your profile, which really isn't something we consider abuse. If this continues, let us know. – NullUserException Oct 10 '12 at 08:17
I'd consider using PEAR Console_Commandline http://pear.php.net/package/Console_CommandLine :-) But plain ol' $argv sure works. – Jan. Oct 10 '12 at 08:43
@JvdBerg Thanks for the hint, I tried that with `php function.php john_doe` but now I get an error telling me `PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_FUNCTION`. Seems as if the function can't handle the string john_doe, but that's weird. Do you have an idea why? – JohnnyFromBF Oct 10 '12 at 09:40
@JvdBerg It's this [here](http://code.google.com/p/piwik-ldap/source/browse/trunk/LoginLdap/Controller.php) with which I want to add LDAP Users to Piwik with a batch script. – JohnnyFromBF Oct 10 '12 at 10:34

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 08:10

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You can use $argv. $argv[0] = the filename, $argv[1] = first thing after filename.

I.e. php function.php "some arg" would be addUser("some arg");

answered Oct 10 '12 at 08:10

Steve

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 29 '17 at 11:26

function funcb()
{
    echo 'yes';
}

if (php_sapi_name() === 'cli') {
    if (count($argv) === 1) {
        echo 'See help command'.PHP_EOL;
        exit();
    }

    if (function_exists($argv[1])) {
        $func = $argv[1];
        array_shift($argv);
        array_shift($argv);
        $func(...$argv);
    }
}

This works for me!

How to call a PHP function from CLI?

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