Command Line Password Prompt in PHP

Question

I\'m writing a command line tool to help my web app. It needs a password to connect to the service. I\'d like the script to show a password prompt so I don\'t have to pass i

Answer 1

Theorically you can do it using stream_set_blocking(), but looks like there are some PHP bugs managing STDIN.

Look: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34972 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36030

Try yourself:

echo "Enter Password: ";
$stdin = fopen('php://stdin','r');
// Trying to disable stream blocking
stream_set_blocking($stdin, FALSE) or die ('Failed to disable stdin blocking');
// Trying to set stream timeout to 1sec
stream_set_timeout ($stdin, 1) or die ('Failed to enable stdin timeout');