CodeIgniter CLI - passing multiple args to method

Question

I'm testing out some models from a CodeIgniter project via CLI, the method in question has two arguments:

public function get_questions_from_block($block_name, $return_array = FALSE)

I have tried this:

php index.php test_controller get_question_block_name example_block TRUE

but it returns 0 or FALSE. How do I pass multiple arguments through CLI ? Do I have to use :

$_SERVER['argv'];

to get all the arguments? Or is there an easier way?

SomeShinyObject · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-27 04:45:52Z

1

You can use getopt() rather than $_SERVER['argv']

But in this case, I don't think that will help you (without heavy code modification).

Perhaps you should check out the unit-test class that CI provides.

In that, you could simply run a series of tests against your model by doing something like the following in a separate unit testing file:

$this->load->model('test_model');
$this->unit->run(
    $this->test_model->get_questions_from_block(args),
    $expected_behavior /* what should be returned */,
    $test_name /* name your test */
);

edited Mar 27, 2013 at 4:45

answered Mar 27, 2013 at 4:20

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2 Comments

bart_88 Over a year ago

Thanks for that, I really should be writing unit-tests on this piece of code anyway, It's great that codeigniter has a unit-test class shipped with the framework.

SomeShinyObject Over a year ago

You can always use PHPUnit too. Personal preference I guess.

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