http://php.net/proc_open On 20 May 2002, Kim Saunders wrote:
> Hi All, > > I'm writing something in PHP at the moment, and I *really* need > bi-directional pipe support, a la IPC::Open2 in Perl. > > IPC::Open2 works by returning two filehandles to the command to be run, > one which can be written to and it goes to the STDIN of the command that > gets run, and one that can be read from to get the output of the > command. > > As far as I can tell, this cannot be done in PHP. passthru() doesn't > allow writing to STDIN, apparently this has worked with popen() at some > point according to a user comment in the manual, but it doesn't work for > me using Linux and Apache. > > This is a very useful thing to be able to do, as there are many commands > under *n?x that you can write to the STDIN of and read processed data > from STDOUT, like tar, image processing utilities, tr, etc. > > I'd like to see this in PHP, and, if it's not there, I'm not opposed to > writing to code to do it, since I know how to do this in C. > > I guess I'm asking: > > * am I correct that there isn't a way to do this in PHP at the moment? > * do people agree that this would be a good thing to have? > * if I were to write it, is someone interested in adding it to PHP, and > perhaps helping me out with PHP-specific issues? > > Thanks, > > KimS > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
