Posted by Ulrich Sch�bel on 11/18/05 18:37

Hi Phillip,

if your php script needs input from stdin, try open.
If it needs input from the terminal, use expect.

Best regards

Ulrich


In article <1132329306.392127.205410@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"comp.lang.tcl" <phillip.s.powell@gmail.com> writes:
> The TCL command I am using will do a command-line action on a PHP
> script:
>
> set cannotRunPHP [catch {
> eval "exec php -q $root/scripts/info/php/info.php"
> } errMsg]
>
> I have to do it this way as both the TCL script and the PHP script run
> as CLI. However, "info.php" requires user input to run; this causes
> the TCL script calling the PHP script to hose up and die.
>
> Is there a way I can do this so that the TCL script can call the PHP
> script without any problems? Is there an alternate way of calling the
> PHP script other than using exec were that to solve this issue?
>
> Thanks
> Phil
>

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