cron - pass crontab a variable and read it from PHP?

Hey there,

I've faced a similar situation before and managed to solve it by using environment variables. Here's how you can do it:

First, within your crontab command, you can pass the variable as an environment variable. For example:

* * * * * MY_VARIABLE=example php /path/to/your/script.php

php
$myVariable = $_ENV['MY_VARIABLE'];

echo $myVariable;

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Hey,

I've encountered a similar situation where I needed to pass a variable to crontab and access it in my PHP script. The approach I found effective involves using a temporary file to transmit the variable.

To begin, in your crontab command, you can pass the variable as a parameter and save it to a temporary file. For example:

* * * * * echo 'example' > /tmp/my_variable.txt && php /path/to/your/script.php

php
$myVariable = trim(file_get_contents('/tmp/my_variable.txt'));

echo $myVariable;

Hey,

I had a similar requirement of passing variables to a PHP script via crontab, and I found a different approach that worked for me. Instead of using environment variables, I utilized command line arguments.

In your crontab command, you can pass the variable as a command line argument to the PHP script. For instance:

* * * * * php /path/to/your/script.php arg1=value arg2=example

php
$arguments = getopt("", ["arg1:", "arg2:"]);

$arg1 = isset($arguments['arg1']) ? $arguments['arg1'] : "";

$arg2 = isset($arguments['arg2']) ? $arguments['arg2'] : "";



echo $arg1 . " " . $arg2;

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