PHP Command-Line PHP Reading Passwords Problem You need to read a string from the command line without it being echoed as it’s typed —for example, when entering passwords. Solution If the ncurses extension is available, use ncur...

PHP Command-Line PHP Running PHP Code on Every Line of an Input File Problem You want to read an entire file and execute PHP code on every line. For example, you want to create a command-line version of grep that uses PHP’s Perl-compa...

PHP Command-Line PHP Reading from the Keyboard Problem You need to read in some typed user input. Solution Read from the special filehandle STDIN:        print "Type your message. Type '.' on a line by itself when you're done...

PHP Command-Line PHP Parsing Program Arguments with getopt Problem You want to parse program options that may be specified as short or long options, or they may be grouped. Solution Use the built-in getopt() function. As of PHP ...

PHP Command-Line PHP Introduction PHP was created for web programming and is still used mostly for that purpose. However, PHP is also capable as a general-purpose scripting language. Using PHP for scripts you run from the command line ...