Re: Bug #14537: fgetc fails to return single charachter immediatly

You might consider using ncurses_getch() for that purpose. - Markus On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 08:38:20PM -0000, junk-php@aontic.com wrote : > From: junk-php@aontic.com > Operating system: Linux 2.4.7-10smp i686 > PHP version: 4.1.0 > PHP Bug Type: Filesystem function related > Bug description: fgetc fails to return single charachter immediatly > > fgetc should have at least the option of returning a single charachter > immediatly upon its entry, or another function should be defined (such as > getchar()) that achieves similar functionality to fgetc(stdin) which return > a single charachter immediatly. > > The following script allows the user to type more than a single charachter > and only returns when the user hits enter. fgetc should simply block until > a single charachter is entered and then return. > > This is missing functionality that can not be worked around easily as far > as I can tell. > > Script: > > $fp = fopen("php://stdin", "r"); > $char = fgetc($fp); > echo $char; > > > -- > Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=14537&edit=1 > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.