note 124703 added to function.readline

Christian's code works well, but if you want to be able to hide the user input and not echo it to screen, you need to add -s to the read command. The code below is an expanded function that allows an optional prompt and optional hiding of the input: function read_password($prompt=null, $hide=false) { if($prompt) print $prompt; $s = ($hide) ? '-s' : ''; $f=popen("read $s; echo \$REPLY","r"); $input=fgets($f,100); pclose($f); if($hide) print "\n"; return $input; } ---- Server IP: 45.112.84.4 Probable Submitter: 185.85.3.195 (proxied: 83.218.130.90) ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.readline.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/124703 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124703/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124703/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124703/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124703/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124703/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124703/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124703 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/124703 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php