Re: Interactive PHP script from commandline

Hello Ollie, This tutorial may help you : Using PHP As A Shell Scripting Language : by Darrell Brogdon http://phpbuilder.com/columns/darrell20000319.php3 It explains passing/returning arguments in shell with PHP. Regards, Philip On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 o.cook@etoncollege.org.uk wrote: > I've compiled PHP to a binary that I can run from the UNIX commandline. > > If I try to execute a command from a script, it doesn't seem interactive; it > still accepts the input and acts on it; but you can't see the prompts. > > For example if I try to run 'passwd' I get this: > > <enter password> > <enter password again> > <enter password again> > Changing password for test_user > Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 127 characters) > Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers. > New password:Bad password: too simple. > Warning: weak password (enter it again to use it anyway). > New password:Re-enter new password:Password changed. > > You see how it doesn't show the "weak password" prompts or anything similar > (obviously dependant on input) until after the command has been executed. > > Is it possible to somehow run the command interactively? I tried system(), > exec(), passthru() and the backticks on Slackware 7.0. > > Regards, > > Ollie > > --- > Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives? > > http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x53D29567 > --- > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >