Posted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on 11/23/05 02:46

Hi all

This one's got me stumped. I'm working on a PHP CLI interface, and I
need to allow the user to input a bit of HTML.

Rather than bandy around with readline() and the like, I thought it
would be nice to just create a temporary file, pop nano up, and read and
then delete the file once it's been edited. That way I get nano's syntax
highlighting and other useful features.

However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to allow the user to
interact with nano once the process has been launched. The usual culprits:

{exec,system,shell_exec}( "nano tmpfile.txt" );

all just hang (top shows nano is running, but it doesn't seem to be
attached to the terminal).

How can I launch a process and attach it to the terminal PHP CLI was
launched from so that the user can interact with it?

TIA
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Jasper Bryant-Greene
General Manager
Album Limited

+64 21 708 334
jasper@album.co.nz

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