Console_Getopt

Command-line option parser

This package is unmaintained.

Download latest release 1.4.3 (there might be newer Composer installable version)

License: BSD-2-Clause

Description

This is a PHP implementation of "getopt" supporting both
short and long options.

Documentation

Manual

Maintainers

Andrei Zmievski (andrei) — lead, inactive
Stig Bakken (ssb) — developer, inactive
Greg Beaver (cellog) — helper, inactive

Dependencies

Required

PHP (>= 5.4.0)
PEAR Installer (>= 1.8.0)

Releases

1.4.3 (stable, 2019-11-20)
Release notes

License: BSD-2-Clause

* PR #4: Fix PHP 7.4 deprecation: array/string curly braces access
* PR #5: fix phplint warnings
1.4.2 (stable, 2019-03-18)
Release notes

License: BSD-2-Clause

* Remove use of each(), which is removed in PHP 8
1.4.1 (stable, 2015-07-20)
Release notes

License: BSD-2-Clause

* Fix unit test on PHP 7 [cweiske]
1.4.0 (stable, 2015-02-22)
Release notes

License: BSD-2-Clause

* Change license to BSD-2-Clause
* Set minimum PHP version to 5.4.0
* Mark static methods with "static" keyword
1.3.1 (stable, 2011-03-08)
Release notes

License: PHP License

* Change the minimum PEAR installer dep to be lower
1.3.0 (stable, 2010-12-11)
Release notes

License: PHP License

* Implement Request #13140: [PATCH] to skip unknown parameters. [patch by rquadling, improved on by dufuz]
1.2.3 (stable, 2007-06-12)
Release notes

License: PHP License

* fix Bug #11068: No way to read plain "-" option [cardoe]
1.2.2 (stable, 2007-02-17)
Release notes

License: PHP License

* fix Bug #4475: An ambiguous error occurred when specifying similar longoption name.
* fix Bug #10055: Not failing properly on short options missing required values
1.2.1 (stable, 2006-12-08)
Release notes

License: PHP License

Fixed bugs #4448 (Long parameter values truncated with longoption parameter) and #7444 (Trailing spaces after php closing tag)
1.2 (stable, 2003-12-11)
Release notes

License: PHP License

Fix to preserve BC with 1.0 and allow correct behaviour for new users
1.0 (stable, 2002-09-13)
Release notes

License: PHP License

Stable release
0.11 (beta, 2002-05-26)
Release notes

License: PHP License

POSIX getopt compatibility fix: treat first element of args
array as command name

Bugs

ID	Status	Type	Version	Date	Summary
#369	Closed	Bug		2003-12-06	GetOpt 1.1 breaks pearcmd
#1499	Bogus	Bug		2004-05-25	Console_Getopt does not support args with spaces
#1831	Closed	Bug		2004-07-09	Does not support = sign in argument value on longoptions
#4448	Closed	Bug		2005-05-26	Long parameter values truncated with longoption parameter
#4475	Closed	Bug		2005-05-30	An ambiguous error occurred when specifying similar longoption name.
#7444	Closed	Bug	1.2	2006-04-20	Trailing spaces after php closing tag
#10055	Closed	Bug	1.2.1	2007-02-08	Not failing properly on short options missing required values
#10288	Bogus	Bug	1.2.2	2007-03-06	Order of options causes incorrect return
#10363	Closed	Bug	1.2.2	2007-03-13	E_NOTICE triggered in some cases
#10557	Closed	Bug	1.2.2	2007-03-29	Not failing properly on LONG options missing required values (similar to 10055)
#11068	Closed	Bug	1.2.2	2007-05-17	No way to read plain "-" option
#11620	Bogus	Bug	1.2.3	2007-07-17	Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in Console/Getopt.php on line 214
#11954	Wont fix	Bug	1.2.3	2007-09-01	long opt return -- in option, short opt do not
#12663	Wont fix	Bug	1.2.3	2007-12-11	Methods need to be declared as static
#13140	Closed	Req	1.2.3	2008-02-18	[PATCH] to skip unknown parameters.
#13902	Closed	Doc		2008-05-14	User note that is a documentation problem
#14684	Bogus	Bug	1.2.3	2008-09-21	console_getopt provides different results depending on platform used.
#14786	Closed	Req	CVS	2008-10-13	Improve PHPCS results
#18989	Closed	Bug	SVN	2011-11-14	remove error_reporting (for PEAR QA team)
#19578	Duplicate	Bug	1.3.1	2012-08-23	throws warnings in strict mode
#20259	Closed	Bug	SVN	2014-04-28	Please change license (move away from PHP license)
#23762	Open	Bug	1.4.1	2018-09-02	Contains deperecated each()
#23771	Open	Bug	1.4.1	2018-09-28	Missing argument in console_getopt