Non-blocking on STDIN in PHP CLI

Question

Is there anyway to read from STDIN with PHP that is non blocking:

I tried this:

stream_set_blocking(STDIN, false);
echo fread(STDIN, 1);         


        

Answer 1

Here's what I could come up with. It works fine in Linux, but on Windows, as soon as I hit a key, the input is buffered until enter is pressed. I don't know a way to disable buffering on a stream.