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[jon baer]

ok after further investigation i realized i should have worded my question
differently but in a nutshell:

this requires process control functions for setting a timeout to not wait
for STDIN (otherwise user needs to type something first) in turn these
functions are not available on Windoze.  so just to clarify my question -
"on W32 there is no way to timeout STDIN from cli?"

- jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "jon baer" <jonbaer at jonbaer.net>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] determining empty STDIN | php://stdin (cli)


> that was more or less what I had come up with but I had noticed that
passing
> say an argument for reading php://stdin when there was no content would
just
> hang.  So if someone did:
> php blah.php blah
> -instead of-
> cat <file> | php blah.php blah
> the feof is never read, im trying to determine if it has to do with the
> option 'auto_detect_line_endings'
>
> - jon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Analysis & Solutions" <danielc at analysisandsolutions.com>
> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] determining empty STDIN | php://stdin (cli)
>
>
> > Hi Jon:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:33:42PM -0400, jon baer wrote:
> > > normally the small scripts i write either getopt for it's content or
> read
> > > STDIN along the pipe, but i just tried to throw in a usage() function
> for
> > > null input and could not determine if STDIN was empty or not it, just
> hangs
> > > (W32).
> > >
> > > ie:
> > > $d = fread(STDIN, 1024);
> > >
> > > nothing seems to be able to determine if there is content ... any
ideas?
> > > have not tried on debian yet.  thought checking (STDIN) would work but
> > > didn't.
> >
> > I'm confused as to what you're really after.  Wouldn't a usage example
> > apply to tips on passing arguments to a command line script?  Arguments
> > for such scripts are found in $_SERVER['argv'], not STDIN.
> >
> > As far as STDIN goes, I'm used to reading it via fopen() then fgets().
> >
> > So, a quick and dirty example...
> >
> >
> > if ( empty($_SERVER['argv'][1]) ) {
> >     $_SERVER['argv'][1] = '';
> > }
> >
> > switch ($_SERVER['argv'][1]) {
> >     case 'blah':
> >         $In = fopen('php://stdin', 'r');
> >
> >         while ( !feof($In) ) {
> >            // do blah
> >         }
> >         break;
> >
> >     default:
> >         echo 'usage...';
> > }
> >
> > Enjoy,
> >
> > --Dan
> >
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