note 10408 modified in function.fopen by irc-html

From: Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:38:21 +0000
Subject: note 10408 modified in function.fopen by irc-html
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Hi there! For anyone wondering how to use php for console scripts, here it goes a function that reads stdin and works like good old Pascal Readln(). Hope it helps. Paulo <? Function Readln(&$INPUT){ $fp = fopen("php://stdin","r"); while (!feof($fp)) { $BUFFER = fgetc($fp); $INPUT .= $BUFFER; if ($BUFFER == "\n") break; } fclose($fp); } echo "Enter something:"; Readln($UserInput); echo "Input from console: ".$UserInput; ?> --was-- Hi there! For anyone wondering how to use php for console scripts, here it goes a function that reads stdin and works like good old Pascal Readln(). Hope it helps. Paulo &lt;? Function Readln(&$INPUT){ $fp = fopen("php://stdin","r"); while (!feof($fp)) { $BUFFER = fgetc($fp); $INPUT .= $BUFFER; if ($BUFFER == "\n") break; } fclose($fp); } echo "Enter something:"; Readln($UserInput); echo "Input from console: ".$UserInput; ?> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

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