http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.argv.php
example:
~a sudo php scriptname.php 100
pass IN 100 to the script.
In the script, receive input:
$batchNumber = $argv[1]
test it:
var_dump($argv);
handy when calling a php script via a cron, thus allowing the script parameters to be configurable via the cron.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.php-uname.php
<? php
// form page (index.php): initialize a session so that we can set a unique, random, encrypted value to a user session
session_start();
$token = md5(uniqid(rand(), true));
$_SESSION['token'] = $token;
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<script src=”js/jquery.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”js/jquery.validation.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”js/registerSubmit.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
</head>
<body>
<!– The Form –>
<form id=”topForm” name=”topForm” method=”post”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”token” id=”token” value=”<? php echo $token; ? >” />
<input name=”emailAddress” id=”emailAddress” value=”Email address” onclick=”if( this.value == ‘Email address’ ){ $(this).val(”); }” onblur=”if( this.value == ”){ $(this).val(‘Email address’); }” />
</form>
</body>
</html>
// The jquery.validation.js class uses a regular expression to stop the process if the email entered isn’t acceptable
;(function($) {
$.validation = {};
$.extend( $.validation, {
email:function(email) {
var filter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.-])+@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
if ( filter.test(email) ) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
})(jQuery);
// The registerSubmit.js submits the entered email via AJAX, returning a success or failure message, to our contactSubmit.php script, which handles the submission of the new email to a database
$(document).ready(function() {
$(“#reg-button”).click(function(){
$(“#topForm”).submit();
});
$(“#topForm”).submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var $form = $( this ),
emailAddress = $form.find( ‘input[name="emailAddress"]‘ ).val(),
token = $form.find( ‘input[name="token"]‘ ).val(),
formaction = $form.attr( ‘action’ );
if($.validation.email(emailAddress)){
$( “#reg-description” ).html (“submitting…”);
$.ajax({
type: “POST”,
url: “contactSubmit.php”,
data: “firstName=” + firstName + “&lastName=” + lastName + “&emailAddress=” + emailAddress + “&token=” + token,
success: function(){
$( “#reg-description” ).html( “Thank you. You have been registered.” );
},
});
}
else{
$( “#emailAddress” ).val (“Please enter a valid email address”);
}
});
});
// contactSubmit.php: receive the email, check the token, clean the data, pass to a database layer API
<? php
session_start();
set_include_path(‘DBlayerClass’);
require_once(‘EmailContact.php’);
if (isset($_SESSION['token']) && $_POST['token'] == $_SESSION['token']){
if(isset($_POST['emailAddress'])){
$emailAddress = htmlentities($_POST['emailAddress']);
} else { $emailAddress = ”; }
$contact = new EmailContact($emailAddress)
try {
$contact->save();
} catch (Exception $e) {
; // do something
}
//$retrieve = new EmailContact($emailAddress);
//$retrieve->load();
//print_r($retrieve);
//}
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So either execute the script via the browser, http://someserver/somescript.php
or via the command line >php somescript.php
the example below shows how to support either eventuality
//first we check to see whether the script is being run via the command line, or via a browser
if(defined(‘STDIN‘) ){
echo “Running from CLI” . PHP_EOL;
echo “How many items would you like to batch?”;
$handle = fopen (“php://stdin”,”r”);
$line = fgets($handle);
$batchNumber = trim($line);
// and so on…
}else{
echo “Running from the Browser<br />”;
// and so on…
}
the jQuery posting page, in brief:
<document…>
<head>
<script src=”http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.js”></script>
</head>
<body>
<form id=”enewsform” name=”enewsform” action=”http://componentserver/controllername/post” method=”post”>
<input type=”text” name=”email” id=”email” value=”<?php echo $_REQUEST['email']; ?>” />
<a id=”submitsubscribe” title=”Subscribe” href=”javascript:{}” onclick=”return false;”>sign up</a>
</form>
<script src=”http://components.someserver.com/js/jquery.validation.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script>
$(‘#submitsubscribe’).click(function(){
$(“#enewsform”).submit();
});
$(“#enewsform”).submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
$( “#result” ).html (“submitting…”);
var $form = $( this ),
term = $form.find( ‘input[name="email"]‘ ).val(),
url = $form.attr( ‘action’ );
if($.validation.email(term)){
$.getJSON(url + “?email=” + term + “&jsoncallback=?”, function(data){
$( “#result” ).html( data['error'] );
if(data['error']== “errormatchingstring”){
$( “#result” ).html( “Seems like it worked” );
}else{ $( “#result” ).html(data['error']); }
});
}
else{ $( “#result” ).html (“Please enter your email address”); }
});
</script>
<div id=”result”></div>
// the component Zend controller in question receives the post, does whatever it does, renders its view, and we access the results from the view (don’t forget to pass data to the view with something like this:
$this-> view-> viewresult = $this-> viewData;)
<? php
echo $_REQUEST['jsoncallback'] . ‘(‘ . json_encode($this-> viewresult) . ‘)’;
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