Re: [PHP4BETA] Standard Features ?

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Sascha Schumann wrote: > 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. Good idea, however I'd rather see it named like this, to further prevent namespace pollution. php:stdin php:stdout php:stderr The "//" is not needed since we're not going to another host to get data. - Stig