On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:41 AM, larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Application" is perhaps a misnomer. I'm not looking at rewriting Emacs or > anything. Just some batch processing that would get run as: > > php myscript.php --config=foo.xml --setting-1=stuff For this I used getopt() which worked well enough. Long options don't work on Windows IIRC (check the docs), but you can easily get arguments from short options. An example for the tool I wrote is src/sitemap.php -s 28372 -d mydomain.com -l debug -p -z 9 -b sitemaps -o xml The code that parses the options is very straightforward. If you already use Zend Framework, it has its own CLI library I think. David