Re: [PHP4BETA] Standard Features ?

On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 12:56:45AM -0400, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > I am wondering if PHP4 supports STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, and if there is a > > way to read command line args (ala argc, argv) when php is executed from > > the command line. > > Uhh, argc,argv handling has been available for years. Dating all the way > back to early php2 days as far as I recall. > > And stdout is not an issue of course. stdin/stderr can be access directly > by opening /dev/stdin and /dev/stderr or on some operating systems this > would be /dev/fd/0 and /dev/fd/2 Well, there is no standard way of accessing std* which is guaranteed to work on all platforms. How about adding a new handler to fopen-wrappers: std://in std://out std://err That way no namespace pollution of i.e. normal files takes place. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant