note 28275 added to function.readline

This is mentionned elsewhere on the site, but for those of you that got here by trial and error searching of function names, here's an important fact: this function is not available to windows users, but thankfully we can accomplish much the same thing. function readline () { $fp = fopen("php://stdin", "r"); $in = fgets($fp, 4094); // Maximum windows buffer size fclose ($fp); return $in; } $line = readline(); I appropriated this function from elsewhere on the site, but I feel it should be here to save the time of others like me. ;) Here's a function for multi-line reading that I hacked up myself. Please forgive any obvious mistakes I make, as I am still a beginner. function read ($stopchar) { $fp = fopen("php://stdin", "r"); $in = fread($fp, 1); // Start the loop $output = ''; while ($in != $stopchar) { $output = $output.$in; $in = fread($fp, 1); } fclose ($fp); return $output; } $lines = read("."); This is a multi-line read function, a carriage return won't end this, as with fgets, but the $stopchar param. will. In the above example, you have to type a period followed by a carriage return to break out of the loop and get your input. The $stopchar is not included in the final output, but the last carriage return is. Both of these are simple to change to your needs. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.readline.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+28275 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+28275 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+28275