command-line-interface

I want to read a single character at-a-time from the command line in PHP, however it seems as though there is some kind of input buffering from somewhere preventing this. Consider this code: #!/usr/bin/php <?php echo "input# "; while ($c = fread(STDIN, 1)) { echo "Read from STDIN: " . $c . "\ninput# "; } ?> Typing in "foo" as the input (and pressing enter), the output I am getting is: input# foo Read from STDIN: f input# Read from STDIN: o input# Read from STDIN: o input# Read from STDIN: input# The output I am expecting is: input# f input# Read from STDIN: f input# o input# Read from STDIN: o

I keep getting this PHP error: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded I have tried setting my max_execution_time and my max_input_time settings in php.ini (both apache and cli) to 0 , -1 and 4000 seconds each. And i still get the error saying: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded As well my script runs over 300 seconds before i get this message I am running the script through command line. I also checked my phpinfo() so see which php.ini I am using. Even more interesting I have tried setting max_execution_time and max_input_time settings to 5 second

I need to make a POST request via Curl from the command line. Data for this request is located in a file. I know that via PUT this could be done with the --upload-file option. curl host:port/post-file -H "Content-Type: text/xml" --data "contents_of_file" Richard J You're looking for the --data-binary argument: curl -i -X POST host:port/post-file \ -H "Content-Type: text/xml" \ --data-binary "@path/to/file" In the example above, -i prints out all the headers so that you can see what's going on, and -X POST makes it explicit that this is a post. Both of these can be safely omitted without