Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded

At the beginning of your script you can add.

ini_set('MAX_EXECUTION_TIME', '-1');

Per the inline documentation

The return value is an array of two elements: the list of parsed options and the list of non-option command-line arguments. Each entry in the list of parsed options is a pair of elements - the first one specifies the option, and the second one specifies the option argument, if there was one.

Which means you easily discard the second array, and assume a commitment to the keeping the array of arrays, first element option, second element value, format.

With that assumption in place, try

$o= new Console_Getopt;
$opts = $o->getopt($argv, "a:b:c");
print_r(getHashOfOpts($opts));

function getHashOfOpts($opts) {
    $opts = $opts[0];
    $return_opts = $opts;
    $return_opts = Array();
    foreach($opts as $pair){
        $return_opts[$pair[0]] = $pair[1];
    }
    return $return_opts;
}

to get an data structure more of your liking.

As for why this is different than other implementation of getopt, ask the maintainers.

it's a bug in mysql. you can solve it by getting the latest libmysql.dll (5.1.31 or higher. some older versions also work - see second link). make sure that's the libmysql.dll actually used and there are no other libmysql.dlls in your path. see the related php issue for details.