bdunlap wrote:
>> echo bob | myScript.php
>>
>> In myScript.php, I'm doing:
>>
>> $handle = popen( 'php://stdin', 'r' );
>> echo var_export( $handle, TRUE ) . "\n\n";
>
> What output are you getting from those lines, and what were you
> expecting? $handle is just a resource, same as if you opened a regular
> file -- you still need to read data from it with something like
> fgets().
>
> If I'm writing a quick-and-dirty script to process piped-in data, I
> find this construct to work reasonably well:
>
> while(!feof(STDIN)) {
> $line = fgets(STDIN);
>
> // trim() $line here if I don't want trailing/vertical whitespace
>
> // now do something with $line
> }
>
> The one weakness of that form is that I always get an empty line at
> the end, but as long as I check for that in the loop (which I should
> usually be doing anyway), it's no problem.
>
> Ben
Exactly. And if you just want redirected data you can try:
$data = file_get_contents("php://stdin");
--or--
For an array of lines:
$lines = file("php://stdin");
--
Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com
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