Detect if a PHP script is being run interactively or not

Question

I have a script that is designed to be run both as a web page, and via the console.

Detecting which method was used to invoke the script seems pretty straight forwar

Answer 1

For Windows, you can use this:

$b = stream_isatty(STDIN);
if ($b) {
   echo "php script.php\n";
} else {
   echo "php script.php < input_file\n";
}

https://php.net/function.stream-isatty