Posted by ZeldorBlat on 07/24/07 14:00

On Jul 24, 9:50 am, "Jean Pierre Daviau" <O...@WasEno.ugh> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> On command line is there a simple way to get user input? I am
> not thinking of argc.
> I red about the complicated to install Readline (GNU).
>
> I have found this in the manual wich does not work
> -------------------------------------- Maybe this snippets
> needs some tuning ----------------------------------
>
> // read tree entriesfor ($i=0; $i < 3; $i++) {
> $line = readline("Commande : ");
> readline_add_history($line);
>
> }
>
> // List
> print_r(readline_list_history());
>
> // Liste les variables
> print_r(readline_info());
> --------------------------------------
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> Jean Pierre Daviau
> --
> windows Xp
> asus p4 s533/333/133
> Intel(R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.00 GHz
> Processor Radeon7000 0x5159 agp

Readline is what you want. And, no, it isn't complicated at all:

$userInput = readline('Enter something here: ');

That's it.

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