PHP Command Line - User Input

[piglet]

Hi All,

Yesterday I was writing a command line FTP application - and hit a problem.

I've written quite a few command line utilities in PHP, but none which required user input before.

I got the prototype fully working and started to write the bit where I needed user input - user id, password, file names etc - and couldn't get readline() to work because the standard build of PHP doesn't have the option switched on at compile time.

Please can you suggest ways in which I can get user input (using PHP) as required into comand line PHP without resorting to recompiling with the -readline option. This would be no problem with a web front-end...but this will be used in a command line window on machines which don't have web-servers on them.

I'd like to input plain text and passwords as required - passwords would need to be invisible or *'d on entry.

Any ideas?

[matto]

I found this example in the currently most recent article on phpbuilder (perl->php):

$stdin = fopen('php://stdin', 'r');
echo "Please Enter your Name :";
$mystr = fgets($stdin,100);
echo "Your Name Is :\n";
echo $mystr;
fclose($stdin);

hth,
matto