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

The accepted answer is not good enough. First of all, the Windows solution doesn't work on Windows 7 and above. The solution for other OSs depends on Bash and bash built-in 'read'. However, there are systems which does not use Bash (eg. OpenBSD) and where this obviously won't work.

In this blog I've discussed solution which works on almost any Unix based OS and Windows from 95 to 8. The Windows solution uses external program written in C on top Win32 API. The solution for other OSs uses external command 'stty'. I have yet to see a Unix based system which does not have 'stty'