reading keyboard and interaction with os

[Yandos]

Hello php gurus,

maybe it sounds crazy, but I'd would like to use php for some system
administration, backups, etc, but sometimes user interaction is needed.
Till now i have been using windows script host, but more and more I need
communication with intranet servers, which works fine with libcurl. Now
I'm executing curl.exe for every intranet request I need, and it's too slow.

My question is, if I can read keyboard using php. I know i can execute
external program like choice.com (to ask for answer no/yes etc), but
this is the thing i'd like to avoid... I know there's ton of other
languges which could do that better, jike java or c++, but php is the
only I know a bit.

Thank you for any ideas,
Y.

[NC]

Re: reading keyboard and interaction with os

Yandos wrote:[color=blue]
>
> My question is, if I can read keyboard using php.[/color]

If you are running a command-line interpreter, yes; you can read
keyboard input from standard input stream (STDIN):

$response = trim(fgets(STDI N));

Cheers,
NC

[Yandos]

Re: reading keyboard and interaction with os

"NC" <nc@iname.com > wrote in news:1132335121 .905963.215850
@f14g2000cwb.go oglegroups.com:
[color=blue]
> Yandos wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> My question is, if I can read keyboard using php.[/color]
>
> If you are running a command-line interpreter, yes; you can read
> keyboard input from standard input stream (STDIN):
>
> $response = trim(fgets(STDI N));
>
> Cheers,
> NC
>
>[/color]

That's great, thank you :)

Y.