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St. John Johnson
St. John Johnson

Reputation: 6660

Reading line by line from STDIN without blocking

Basically, I'm looking to read lines from STDIN, but I don't want to block while waiting for new data. Almost like using a stream with a timeout.

$stdin = fopen('php://stdin', 'r');

do {
  $line = fgets($stdin);

  // No input right now
  if (empty($line)) {
    // Do something before waiting for more input
  }
} while (1);

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4783

Answers (1)

St. John Johnson
St. John Johnson

Reputation: 6660

Figured it out, use stream_set_blockingDocs to disable blocking. Sets $line to false when no input is available.

Upvotes: 7

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