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+<?php
+/*
++ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|     e107 website system
+|
+|     ©Steve Dunstan 2001-2002
+|     http://e107.org
+|     jalist@e107.org
+|
+|     Released under the terms and conditions of the
+|     GNU General Public License (http://gnu.org).
+|
+|     $Source: /cvs_backup/e107_0.8/e107_handlers/cli_class.php,v $
+|     $Revision: 1.1 $
+|     $Date: 2008-01-21 13:25:42 $
+|     $Author: mcfly_e107 $
++----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+*/
+
+class eCLI
+{
+	/**
+	*  Provided a list of command line arguments, parse them in a unix manner.
+	*  If no args are provided, will default to $_SERVER['argv']
+	*
+	*	 @return array arg values 
+	*/
+
+	function parse_args($argv='')
+	{
+		if($argv == '')
+		{
+			if(isset($_SERVER['argv']))
+			{
+				$argv = $_SERVER['argv'];
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				return array();
+			}
+		}
+		if(!is_array($argv))
+		{
+			return array();
+		}
+		$_ARG = array();
+		foreach ($argv as $arg)
+		{
+			if (preg_match('#^-{1,2}([a-zA-Z0-9]*)=?(.*)$#', $arg, $matches))
+			{
+				$key = $matches[1];
+				switch ($matches[2])
+				{
+					case '':
+					case 'true':
+					$arg = true;
+					break;
+					case 'false':
+					$arg = false;
+					break;
+					default:
+					$arg = $matches[2];
+				}
+
+				/* make unix like -afd == -a -f -d */
+				if(preg_match("/^-([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/", $matches[0], $match))
+				{
+					$string = $match[1];
+					for($i=0; strlen($string) > $i; $i++)
+					{
+						$_ARG[$string[$i]] = true;
+					}
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					/* --arg=val will assign $_ARG['arg'] to 'val' */
+					/* --arg (or --arg=true) will assign $_ARG['arg'] to true */
+					/* --arg=false will assign $_ARG['arg'] to false */
+					$_ARG[$key] = $arg;
+				}
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				/* assume command input parm, add each to input array */
+				$_ARG['input'][] = $arg;
+			}
+		}
+		return $_ARG;
+	}
+
+}