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sfinktah at php dot spamtrak dot org ¶

14 years ago

To read a single key-press in CLI mode, you can either use ncurses (which will probably require additional modules for PHP) or get nasty with the *nix "/bin/stty" command)

<?php
   function stty($options) {
      exec($cmd = "/bin/stty $options", $output, $el);
      $el AND die("exec($cmd) failed");
      return implode(" ", $output);
   }

   function getchar($echo = false) {
      $echo = $echo ? "" : "-echo";

      # Get original settings
      $stty_settings = preg_replace("#.*; ?#s", "", stty("--all"));

      # Set new ones
      stty("cbreak $echo");

      # Get characters until a PERIOD is typed,  
      # showing their hexidecimal ordinal values.
      printf("> ");
      do {
         printf("%02x ", ord($c = fgetc(STDIN)));
      } while ($c != '.');

      # Return settings
      stty($stty_settings);
   }

   getchar();
?>

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