On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Joshua Kehn wrote: > On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:55 AM, la...@garfieldtech.com wrote: > >> Hi folks. I have a project coming up that will involve writing a >> non-trivial command line PHP application. Most of it will be nice and >> abstracted and standalone and all of that jazz, but it will need to do >> command line interation. I'm not sure yet if it will be interactive or if I >> just need to parse lots of command line switches. >> >> Has anyone used a CLI-handling library they like? I recall briefly using >> the PEAR CLI library many many years ago and disliking it because it was >> only barely a step above the raw PHP-CLI SAPI, and still required lots of >> if-else branching in my code. I don't know if there's anything better since >> then, however. I prefer clean OO to procedural, but can work with >> procedural if needs be. The fewer dependencies it has the better as well. >> >> Any recommendations? >> >> (Open source, GPLv2-compatible required.) >> >> --Larry Garfield > > Larry- > > Why are you writing a command line application in PHP? I would think that is > starting off on a very wrong foot. > > Can you explain the requirements / use cases a bit more? >
I agree. Not saying that it isn't doable, because it certainly is, but there may be other languages that are available and easier to implement a CLI app, such as Python, or some other QnD scripting language. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
