Re: stdout as input

> echo bob | myScript.php > > In myScript.php, I'm doing: > >  $handle = popen( 'php://stdin', 'r' ); >  echo var_export( $handle, TRUE ) . "\n\n"; What output are you getting from those lines, and what were you expecting? $handle is just a resource, same as if you opened a regular file -- you still need to read data from it with something like fgets(). If I'm writing a quick-and-dirty script to process piped-in data, I find this construct to work reasonably well: while(!feof(STDIN)) { $line = fgets(STDIN); // trim() $line here if I don't want trailing/vertical whitespace // now do something with $line } The one weakness of that form is that I always get an empty line at the end, but as long as I check for that in the loop (which I should usually be doing anyway), it's no problem. Ben