Passing Multiple variables from php to casperjs

Question

I've got phantomjs and casperjs working on a webserver. I've got a webpage up with a form on it and two fields in the form (name and email address).

I need to input both 'name' and 'email' as variables into my casper script. From reading

Pass parameter from php to casperjs/phantomjs

and

http://phantomjs.org/api/system/property/platform.html

I understand you need to put var system and var args but it all seems like double dutch to me.

Php code

$name = $_POST['user_input'];
$email = $_POST['user_input'];
putenv("PHANTOMJS_EXECUTABLE=/usr/local/bin/phantomjs");
exec('/usr/local/bin/casperjs hello.js $name $email 2>&1',$output);

print_r($output);

casperjs code

var system = require('system');
var args = system.args;
var name = args
var email = args

var casper = require('casper').create({
  verbose: true,
});
casper.start('website url');



casper.then(function () {
    casper.wait(5000); 
        this.echo("wait for 5 seconds.");

});
casper.then(function () {

    this.sendKeys('#firstname', name);
    this.sendKeys('#thereemail', email);
    this.click('.button');

From the looks of it I need to get both into one argument and then split them but how would I go about doing that?

Edit: The method posted would not work

Possible duplicate of How to pass variables and data from PHP to JavaScript? — Pedro Lobito
– Pedro Lobito, Commented May 2, 2016 at 15:52
Possible duplicate of How to pass a variable to a CasperJS script through the command line? — Vaviloff
– Vaviloff, Commented May 3, 2016 at 5:26

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:24:40Z

1

var casper = require("casper").create({
  verbose: true,
});
var name = casper.cli.args[0];
var email = casper.cli.args[1];

See also: very close answer to your question; official CasprJS docs on working with CLI

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:24

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answered May 3, 2016 at 5:30

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