Shell Scripting

[achost]

Hello,

I'm currently trying to write a shell script, that accepts data via STDIN during execution. When i try to execute the script, i get the prompts for entering the data, then after they have all been processed, it echo's out the text that was supposed to be executed before the prompts. I was thinking this was a buffering error, but even flush()'ing after every echo/print still results in this problem.

The script is running on php 4.2.1 (CGI) on freebsd 4.5

Here is the script:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?
$fp=fopen("/dev/stdin", "r");
echo "First Name?\n";
flush();
$fname = fgets($fp,256);
print("Last Name?\n");
flush();
$lname = fgets($fp,256);
Print("Welcome ".$fname." ".$lname.".");
?>

Any help would be appreciated.

Jason Reid
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[Anon]

Works for me as a shell script, even without flushing, on a Win32 system:

<?
$fp=fopen("php://stdin", "r");
echo "First Name?\n";
$fname = fgets($fp,256);
print("Last Name?\n");
$lname = fgets($fp,256);
Print("Welcome ".$fname." ".$lname.".");
?>

First name?
Grumbler
Last Name?
Slushfund
Welcome
Grumbler
Slushfund
.