Re: Can PHP determine if the STDOUT to a CLI script is being redirected?
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:57:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Can PHP determine if the STDOUT to a CLI script is being redirected? | ||
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Richard Quadling wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Is there a simple way for a CLI based PHP script to determine if its
> output is being redirected to a file or piped through a filter (find,
> sort, etc.)
>
> I'm using ANSI escape sequences to colour the output (all working very
> nicely), but I want to suppress the codes if the output is being
> filtered or redirected to a file.
Check out posix_isatty()
/Per
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Per Jessen, Zürich (16.4°C)