A kind of pipe...

[Anon]

Hi!
How can I use a program in pipe with some information that comes from a php code? Example...

#a_program_that_requires_a_password
Your password:
Re-type password:

Well, how can I send the password from a php script to the user-input? I think of something like

open (FD, "|$cmd");
print FD "$password\n";

from perl but how can I implement someting like this in php?
Thanks, George.

[Anon]

Have you looked at popen()? It's in the Filesystem group
in the manual.

[Anon]

Thanks kirk!
It's working now. The solution sounds like this...

$pipe=popen("TheProgram", "w");
$password="ThePassword\n";
fputs($pipe, $password);
fputs($pipe, $password);
pclose($pipe);

For those who will be searching... 🙂
Thanks again Kirk.
George.