you can remove the description of each argument if you don’t need them
you can get rid of the extension of the parser class, if you don’t need a different help message
you can remove the help message shown by default

… which will give you this shorter piece of code :

require_once(‘CliParser.inc’);

$clistring = new CliTokenString(“-c”);
$clihelp = new CliTokenBoolean(“–help”);
$clisingleton = new CliTokenBoolean(“-e”);
$clibool = new CliTokenBoolean(“-b”);
$clidir = new CliTokenDirectory(“-d”);
$clifile = new CliTokenDirectory(“-f”);
$cliint = new CliTokenInteger(“-i”);
$clienum = new CliTokenEnum(“-enum”, array(‘the’, ‘different’, ‘values’, ‘accepted’));

//Building the parser and parsing the arguments
$cli = new CliParser($_SERVER["argv"]);
$cli->register($clihelp, false); // false because it not require an argument
$cli->register($clistring);
$cli->register($clisingleton, false); // false because it not require an argument
$cli->register($clibool);
$cli->register($clidir);
$cli->register($clifile);
$cli->register($cliint);
$cli->register($clienum);
$cli->parse();

//Showing the options
var_dump($clistring->getValue());
var_dump($clisingleton->getValue());
var_dump($clibool->getValue());
var_dump($clidir->getValue());
var_dump($clifile->getValue());
var_dump($cliint->getValue());

//Showing the non options
var_dump($cli->getNonOptions());

But yes, you can make smaller, dirtier, non-reusable code.
Also, remember that it is an extension of something already existing. Most of the setup code doesn’t come from me.

However, what would you do to make this smaller ?

Seriously, dude, this is way too much code for setup…