[Ed. note: you can use fopen("php://stdin", "w") to achieve the same thing, works on both Windows and Unix)]
I wanted to get console input in a PHP script running on windows, so I made a little hack, which is so simple, it is clearly public domain. What I did was write a C++ program to get a line, then output it. Then all that is needed is to exec() that program and capture the output - readline() for windows. The C++ source is as follows:
#include <iostream.h>
#include <string>
void main()
{
string input;
cin >> input;
cout << input;
}
It works wonderfully for my purposes, since I love the PHP language and want to have console input.
Justin Henck
