Travis Swicegood [2008-01-10 20:15 UTC] What are the differences, short of API, between this and the recent Console_CommandLine proposal that was accepted?
Michel Corne [2008-01-11 08:52 UTC] In reply to Travis' comment, the main differences between GetoptPlus and Console_CommandLine are the following:
+ GetoptPlus implements getopt(), getopt2(), doGetopt(), readPHPArgv() as in Console_getopt. It is PHP5 code and it throws Exception instead of using PEAR_ERROR. This was the main driver for writing this package, in line with PEAR's guidance to port packages from PHP4 to PHP5.
+ Other packages use Console_getopt or implement very similar built-in command line parsing mechanisms, they could easily benefit from GetoptPlus.
+ The getoptplus() enhanced method uses a simple array-based description of the command to specify option short names, long names, their types and
usage. There is no need to call additional methods.
+ getoptplus() accepts option name shortcuts such as "--f" or "--for" for "--format". This is similar to other command line parsers and it is nice to have.
+ GetoptPlus will soon implement a Web interface to run command line through a browser.
= GetoptPlus and Console_CommandLine can both generate the command usage automatically.
- GetoptPlus does not handle sub commands nor option value types (or actions).
As a side note, the package has been on sourceforge for 7 months or so. It took me that long to propose it to the Pear community: my bad... GetoptPlus is fully tested and production ready. I am already using it as a built-in class in other packages. I really would like to use it as a separate package, hoping it will be accepted. I believe there is room for both packages as they meet different needs.
Michel Corne [2008-01-11 17:19 UTC] In reply Jean Louis' questions on some functionalities:
+ Yes, GetoptPlus handles the '--' special option that stops options parsing and consider further tokens as parameters
+ Yes, long options can be separated from the argument with '=' or by a space
+ Yes, '-' alone is handled as the standard input (stdin) flag and remaining tokens are considered as parameters, as per Console_getopt
+ Yes, it is POSIX compliant (first non-option stops option processing) BUT there is no other mode; this could be added as an enhancement as you are suggesting.
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