Reading Standard In

[Anon]

I was wondering if it is possible to read standard in ... i have got it to work on windows but on linux it doesnt.. i have tried even calling external apps to just output the stdin but it seems to execute the app befor it prints echos that come befor it.

[Anon]

I'm not sure what you mean.

PHP is generally considered a scripting language and is not designed in any way to be dynamically interactive with a user.

If you need to read from stdin on a console, use Python or Java.

While it's possible to use the fopen("php://stdin") command to open stdin, it rather defeats the purpose of using PHP in the first place :-)

But that fopen syntax should work on basically any system.

Eric

[Anon]

You need something like this maybe.

<?php

Class Console {

var $left_key = "";
var $right_key = "";
var $up_key = "";
var $down_key = "";

var $num_left_key = "";
var $num_right_key = "";
var $num_up_key = "";
var $num_down_key = "";

var $f1 = "";
var $f2 = "";
var $f3 = "";
var $f4 = "";
var $f5 = "";
var $f6 = "";
var $f7 = "";
var $f8 = "";
var $f9 = "";
var $f10 = "";
var $f11 = "";
var $f12 = "";

Function Readln(){
$info_IN = fopen("/dev/stdin","r");
while (!feof($info_IN)) {
$IN = fgetc($info_IN);
if ($IN != "n"){
// $IN .= $IN;
echo $IN;
}

}

// return $IN;
fclose($info_IN);
}

}

$nig = new Console;
$nig->Readln();
//echo $nig->Readln();

?>

Wacko