Re: Writing to process STDIN and reading its STDOUT from PHP4?
| From: | Teodor Cimpoesu | Date: | Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:46:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Writing to process STDIN and reading its STDOUT from PHP4? | ||
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Hi Steve!
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Steve Hsieh wrote:
> Thanks Robert,
>
> However, those functions deal with PHP's own stdin/stdout. What I am trying
> to do is write to STDIN of a process started by PHP and then read the
> process STDOUT.
the see popen(). Redirect command output to a file, and read from that
file.
Alternatively, you may look at posix_mkfifo(). Redirect the output
of the command to a pipe, and fopen() it and fread() from is as from
regular files.
-- teodor