Posted by Chung Leong on 10/19/00 11:52

Richard Levasseur wrote:
> It would seem you're out of luck, then, at least for windows. In *nix
> you might be able to use the "_" env variable. You can always require
> a command line switch to be set to specify the mode. The only other
> idea i have is to figure out where stdout is going.

Hmmm, that should work. GUI apps on Windows have null stdout. An
attempt to write to it would fail:

$stdout = fopen("php://stdout", "wb");

if(@fwrite($stdout, "Error: the dingo ate my baby\n") == 0) {
// do something else
}

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