Calling a function in a PHP file

Hi

is this possible to call a function within a php file

as i wish to call a function within the wordpres function.php file from the command prompt some thing like

> php function.php hello2

can this be done ?

eg
function.php =

function hello1 () {

echo 'hello';

}

function hello2 () {

echo 'hello';

}

 

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.call-user-func.php

 

Way over my head and that did not make any sense at all

 

can you be a bit more elaborate on what you're trying to achieve? why would you want to call a PHP function from command prompt?

 

To the question as i have the shell access to run the script , i dont wish to run the function over the web server plus i see what the problems will be from standard out

 

include("function.php");
hello2 ();

PHP:

 

we are taking about the shell command line here not inside a include script .

 

Not tested, but you get the idea. Use func_get_arg to get the function name and call it like $functioname().

func_get_arg(0) is the filename, then starts the options. You can use --option-name syntax if you want as well (like shell scripts do).

<?php

if (isset(func_get_arg(1)) && is_function(func_get_args(1))) {
    {func_get_args(1)}();
    // Pass variable params as well if you want, but check for them
    // {func_get_args(1)}(func_get_args(2));
} else {
    die('Invalid function call');
}


function hello() { 
    echo 'Hello';
}

function hello2()
{
    echo 'Hello 2';
}

PHP:

 

hmm nice i will give that a go and test it out

Thanks

 

require(); is always best solution how to include important files

 

(G3).. read the full post ass this is not over the web-sever its via the command prompt shell and it wordpress so we are to calling any other file but-in in the function one